In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near
Istanbul, an 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. Under the
creeping shadow of right-wing nationalism and political revolution,
they share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before their
home became a high-class resort.
Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian;
his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun, has yet to discover the
real-life consequences of highminded politics; 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 nationalism, who
will draw this family into the revolution and the growing political
cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for
modernity.
By turns deeply moving, hilarious, and terrifying, _Silent House
_pulses with the energy of a great writer's early work even as it
offers beguiling evidence of the mature genius for which Orhan Pamuk,
winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, would later be world renowned.
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ISBN
9780571276028
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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