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The White Castle Jean Rhys are abandoned outside the convent'sWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Winner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction 'Turkey's foremost novelist . . . A first rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement 'Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.' Independent 'One of those are novels that call into being a complete and self contained world shot through with a peculiar brilliance.' New York Times *Orhan Pamuk's first novel published in English* A young Italian