Silent House

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Family,  History,  Families,  Politics and government,  Coups d'état,  Widows,  Nationalism,  Text,  Roman,  18.84 Turkish language and/or literature,  Fiction, family life, general,  Turkey, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Novela turca,  Grandmothers,  Grandchildren,  Romans, nouvelles,  Histoire,  Novela,  Historia,  Abuelas,  Traducciones al español

Places: Turkey,  Turquie,  Turquía,  Turkía

Times: 1980,  summer of 1980,  20th century,  Siglo XX