The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk

Author:Orhan Pamuk
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: classics, Contemporary, Historical
ISBN: 9780307744043
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1990-01-01T10:00:00+00:00

It was only later that I thought of my days on the island as happy. I paid little to stay in the home of a lone Greek fisherman, and tried to keep out of sight for I did not feel altogether safe. Sometimes I’d think that Hoja was dead, sometimes that he would send men after me. On the island there were many Christians like me fleeing the plague, but I didn’t want them to notice me.

I’d go to sea with the fisherman every morning and return in the evening. For a while I took up spearing lobster and crab. If the weather was too bad for fishing I’d walk around the island, and there were times when I’d go to the garden of the monastery and sleep peacefully under the vines. There was one bower supported by a fig-tree from which you could see as far as Hagia Sofia in fine weather, where I’d sit in the shade gazing at Istanbul, daydreaming for hours on end. In one dream I was sailing to the island and saw Hoja among the dolphins swimming alongside the boat, he’d made friends with them and was asking about me; another time my mother was with them and they scolded me for being late. When I woke up sweating with the sun on my face I’d want to return to these dreams, but unable to, I’d force myself to think: sometimes I’d imagine that Hoja had died and I could see the dead body inside the empty house I’d abandoned, I could feel the silence of the funeral which no one would come to; then I’d think of his predictions, of the amusing things he’d invented happily as well as those he’d concocted in disgust and rage; of the sultan and his animals. Accompanying these day-dreams with the heavy dancing of their claws were the lobsters and crabs I speared through their backs.

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