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Silent House

Silent House

by Orhan Pamuk
Paperback
Publication Date: 23/07/2014

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Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980.

'[A] superb novel, which grips the reader and refuses to let go.' New Yorker

'Full of arresting and unforgettable literary moments ...' The Independent (UK)

In a crumbling mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son. They share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before Cennethisar became a high-class resort.

Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and Metin, a high-school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep's nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.

Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980.

PRAISE FOR ORHAN PAMUK

'Pamuk’s power continues to lie not with the theatrical but with the quiet and the slow.' Publishers Weekly

'No book by this skillful and ambitious writer is without interest.' Kirkus Reviews

'To read Ramuk is to be converted to the cult of the book.' Jonathan Levi, LA Times Book Review

'Turkey's foremost novelist and one of the most interesting literary figures anywhere . . . A first-rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement

ISBN:
9781926428529
9781926428529
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-07-2014
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
197x129x21mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk, is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow.

In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Museum of Innocence was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling.' Orhan Pamuk lives in Istanbul.

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