Sessiz ev

Description

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, Nilgün; 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.

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Other Editions

• Sessiz ev: Roman.1983-01-01
• La Maison du silencePaperbackGallimard1988-09-13
• Sessız evCan1993-01-01
• Sessiz evIletişim1996-01-01
• Het huis van de stilteDe Arbeiderspers2004-01-01
• Dom tishinyIzd-vo Amfora2007-01-01