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In the seventeenth century, a young Venetian scholar captured by the Ottomans is given as a slave to Hoja, a scholar who looks exactly like him.
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The Black Book
Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, comes home to find his wife Rüya gone, and the same day her half-brother Celâl, a famous newspaper columnist, disappears too.
My Name Is Red
In Istanbul in 1591, the sultan has secretly commissioned an illuminated book in the European style, and one of the miniaturists working on it is murdered.
The Bastard of Istanbul
Armanoush, an Armenian-American girl from Arizona, secretly visits her stepfather's family in Istanbul, a houseful of women, and befriends Asya, the illegitimate daughter of the youngest aunt.
The Damned Yard
After the death of Fra Petar, a Bosnian monk, a younger friar remembers his stories of the months he spent in an Istanbul prison, and of Ćamil, a young scholar who came to believe he was an Ottoman prince.
Foe
Susan Barton, cast away on an island with a man called Cruso and his tongueless servant Friday, comes back to England and asks the writer Daniel Foe to make her story into a book.
The Plains
A young filmmaker travels to the plains of inland Australia, where the landowners keep artists and scholars, and spends years failing to make his film.
Season of Migration to the North
A young Sudanese man, back in his Nile village after seven years studying in England, finds a stranger living there, Mustafa Sa'eed, who has his own story of London.
The Childhood of Jesus
A man called Simón and a boy called David arrive by boat in Novilla, a city whose people have been washed clean of their memories, and Simón sets out to find the boy's mother.
Ambiguous Adventure
Samba Diallo, a boy of the Diallobé nobility raised in a strict Quranic school, is sent to the French school and then to Paris, and finds himself caught between two worlds.
I Who Have Never Known Men
Thirty-nine women are held in an underground bunker, watched by silent guards, with no idea how they got there, and the youngest, who has never known anything else, narrates what happens when an alarm sounds one day and the guards vanish.
The Slave
After the Cossack massacres of 1648, Jacob, a learned young Jew, is sold as a slave to a peasant in a Polish mountain village and falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda.
The Time Regulation Institute
Hayri İrdal, a man of no particular ability, tells how he came to help run an institute devoted to setting all the clocks of Istanbul to the same time.