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Published in 1985, Orhan Pamuk’s novel The White Castle explores the social and cultural structure of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire through a symbolic and intellectually rich narrative centered on the concepts of identity and otherness. The novel examines the contrast between East and West through a personal story, blending historical reality with fiction. Content and Theme The novel centers on a Venetian slave captured by the Ottomans and imprisoned in Istanbul, who forms a close relationship