Mi Nombre Era Eileen/ My Name Was Eileen

Una fascinante exploracion de la identidad, del fatidico pulso entre tradicion y modernidad, y del destino del intelectual. Esta deslumbrante novela, con la que el Premio Nobel de Literatura obtuvo un gran reconocimiento internacional, ofrece una sinuosa reflexion sobre la identidad y las relaciones entre oriente y occidente . Un joven cientifico italiano es capturado por piratas cuando viaja de Venecia a Napoles. Poco despues es vendido como esclavo a un sabio turco deseoso de conocer los avances cientificos de Occidente. Ambientada en la Turquia del siglo XVII, El castillo blanco cuenta la extraordinaria historia de estos dos hombres, que curiosamente guardan un gran parecido fisico. Una fascinante exploracion de la identidad, del fatidico pulso entre tradicion y modernidad, y del destino del intelectual a traves de la relacion que surge entre ambos personajes. Otros autores han opinado: Una novela brillante, digna de un narrador unico, excepcional. . John Updike p>English Description From 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. In 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 Hoja– master –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. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each others most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castleis a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.