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Apr 09, 2009 12:09

Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle is a short, sparse book - I'm pretty it doesn't actually have any dialogue, and none of the characters are given proper names - about a seventeenth-century Italian who is captured and brought to Istanbul as a slave. After using his science knowledge to fake it as a doctor for a while, he earns the attention of some ( Read more... )

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schiarire April 9 2009, 16:52:10 UTC

Holy crap! I want it!

bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:01:47 UTC

You know, somehow I MYSTERIOUSLY SUSPECTED it might be up your alley.

schiarire April 9 2009, 17:10:31 UTC

English books are expensive :(

bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:13:32 UTC

It is a very small book though! So maybe it would be cheaper . . .?

schiarire April 9 2009, 17:17:34 UTC

Well -- I think if I found it and it cost under €10 I would probably not be able to say no, it is just a question of finding it I suppose. I do know where there are English books but they are not predictable collections (i.e. you can't expect them to have X just because they have Y and that's how logic works in English-speaking countries).

The Orhan Pamuk book I want to read most of all is The Silent House. But it is untranslated. Is this a trick???

bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:25:03 UTC

It is like a scavenger hunt! If . . . possibly an ultimately frustrating one.

According to Wikipedia it is available in French translation! This is only dubiously helpful to me but probably significantly more helpful to you?

The New Life is the one I want to read next and it is totally going on reserve at the library for me . . . right now! :D

schiarire April 9 2009, 17:27:38 UTC

WHAT IS IT?!?! I CHECKED TO SEE IF IT WAS IN GERMAN TRANSLATION BUT IT WASN'T

agh but where do I get a French copy

I WANT TO READ THAT TOO and also you must read Other Colours, I am going to say that over and over again until you do. Possibly every day. Possibly via Facebook.

bookelfe April 9 2009, 17:33:25 UTC

I think it even won an award in French translation! His publisher's site says: "The following year Pamuk published his novel The Silent House, which in French translation won the 1991 Prix de la découverte européene" so though I do not know how well bookstores are influenced by these things perhaps it will make it easier to find?

:O!!! TWIST MY ARM, WHY DON'T YOU. Reading more Orhan Pamuk I am sure will be a terrible hardship.

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