Silent House (Vintage International)

ISBN: 0307744833

Author: Pamuk, Orhan

Condition: New

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, Nilgn; 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 husbands illegitimate son. Mistress and servant share memories, and grievances, from the past. But the arrival of Receps cousin, Hasan, a fervent right-wing nationalist, threatens to draw the family into the political cataclysm arising from Turkeys 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.