The American debut by the Novel Prize-winning Turkish author and perhaps his most immediately accessible book. A tale of the tension between East and West set in the 17th century, it's the story of the relationship between an Ottoman astronomer and his look-alike slave, an Venetian scholar captured on the high seas. Palmuk's other novels include Snow (TKY93) and My Name is Red (TKY68).  (TKY129, $12.95)