Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
In a crumbling seaside house near Istanbul in the summer just before the 1980 military coup, three grandchildren visit their embittered grandmother, stirring layers of family memory and national history. Through shifting voices—including the matriarch, a disfigured servant, a weary historian, an ambitious teen, and a volatile nationalist—the narrative explores the clash of tradition and modernity, privilege and poverty, and polarized politics. Old secrets surrounding a late doctor’s grand secular project and domestic cruelty haunt the present, while youthful desire and fanaticism build toward a tragic act of violence that echoes a country on the brink.
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- Published
- 1983
- Nationality
- Turkish
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 340-370
- Original Language
- Turkish
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- Alternate Titles
- - Sessiz Ev
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