{"product_id":"2940169181340","title":"The White Castle: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hojaamp;mdash;\"master\"amp;mdash;a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, \u003ci\u003eThe White Castle\u003c\/i\u003e is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179833278704,"sku":"2940169181340","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169181340_p0.jpg?v=1763764812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169181340","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}