Silent House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307744838)

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes an unforgettable novel about a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of an impending military coup that's "threaded through with ideas about history, religion, memory, class and politics" (The New York Times Book Review).

In a crumbling mansion in a gentrified former fishing village on the Turkish coast, the widow Fatma awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilg?; and Metin, a high schooler drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riche. Bedridden, Fatma is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf--and her late husband's illegitimate son. Mistress and servant share memories, and grievances, from the past. But the arrival of Recep's cousin, Hasan, a fervent right-wing nationalist, threatens to draw the family into the political cataclysm arising from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity. Written in the 1980s but never before published in English, this spellbinding novel is a stunning addition to the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk.

Author: Orhan Pamuk
ISBN-10: 0307744833
ISBN-13: 9780307744838
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2013
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.29h x 4.87w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/04/2013 pg. 24