by Orhan Pamuk · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571275946
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«Silent House» is the novel by Orhan Pamuk, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (352 pages, in English).
In a mansion near Istanbul, the elderly Fatma awaits the visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a failed historian; Nilgün, with leftist sensibilities, and Metin, fascinated by the new rich. With Recep, illegitimate son of her late husband, she recalls the past while nationalism and the 1980 military coup loom over the family.
Second novel by Orhan Pamuk, originally published in Turkish as Sessiz Ev in 1983; this English edition is translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn.
For readers of literary fiction interested in twentieth-century Turkey, generational conflicts, and the political backdrop of the 1980 coup.
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
