Orhan Pamuk’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize, Other Colors is a dazzling collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, and the example of other writers. Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces—personal, critical, and meditative—the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter’s precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears. Again and again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, and commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk and dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading and writing. By turns witty, moving, playful, and provocative, Other Colors glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every radiant theme and shifting mooditsprecise shadein the spectrum of significance.

《白色城堡》是一名年輕威尼斯學者的故事，他在乘船從威尼斯航向那不勒斯的途中，遭到土耳其船隻攻擊，並且被俘虜送往伊斯坦堡。在此，他成為土耳其人何雅的奴隸。何雅外貌神似這名年輕義大利人，而且也受過高度教育──至少就其身處的時代與空間來說──他想要從這名義大利人身上瞭解有關西方的文學、科學與工藝等一切。日子一久，這名威尼斯人與何雅愈來愈難以分辨，不是在於他們的外表，而是在於他們的思想與行動。他們合作為土耳其蘇丹進行了一連串的計畫，最後一項是研發一件用來對抗波蘭與其西方盟軍的戰爭武器。武器在圍攻與書名所稱的「白色城堡」時上陣，此時，兩人在城堡的身影底下，終於體會到，「多年來以為是巧合經歷的許多事，其實是不可避免的」。就在這個時候，奴隸與主人做了這件「命定」的事，而歐罕•帕慕克也在這裡留下一道謎題，關於兩人身分的難解之謎...... 《白色城堡》是一本充滿想像力的著作，探討了身分認同與文化差異的觀念，東方與西方的接觸，以及土耳其在世界版圖上有時顯然未知的部分。