The archivist Faruk is captured en-route to Naples and becomes the property of Hoja in his The White Castle.
In one novel by this author, a character forces a village of people to line up and confess their sins, to try to discover the secret of the Frankish people's success. A chapter of another novel by him is a transcript of a hidden tape recording of a man's conversation in a pastry shop with the assassin who shoots him. In a third novel by him, two lovers write letters that are delivered by the illiterate Jewish clothes-peddler (*) Esther. The archivist Faruk is captured en-route to Naples and becomes the property of Hoja in his The White Castle. He wrote a novel whose narrators include a gold coin and the corpse of the miniaturist Elegant Effendi, as well as a novel in which the poet Ka witnesses a coup in Kars. For 10 points, name this author of My Name is Red and Snow, a Turkish Nobel prize-winner.
In one novel by this author, a character forces a village of people to line up and confess their sins, to try to discover the secret of the Frankish people's success.
Orhan Pamuk [or Ferit Orhan Pamuk]