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Never before shared in British, Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the storyline of your Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending armed service coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the gross annual summer months visit of her grandchildren. She's resided in the village for decades, ever since her spouse, an idealistic young doctor, ran afoul of the sultan's grand vizier and arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mainly bedridden, she actually is attended by her continuous servant Recep, a dwarf - and the doctor's illegitimate boy. Despite shared dependency, there is absolutely no love lost between mistress and servant, who've very different recollections - and grievances - from the early years, before Cennethisar grew into a high-class holiday resort bordering the family house, now in shambles. Though eagerly anticipated, Fatma's grandchildren bring little consolation. The eldest, Faruk, a dissipated historian, wallows in liquor as he laments his inability to tell the storyline of the past from the kaleidoscopic bits he confirms in the neighborhood archive; his delicate leftist sister, Nilgün, has yet to discover the real-life repercussions of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school nerd, tries to maintain with the lifestyle of his spoiled society schoolmates while he fantasizes about going to America - an unaffordable desire unless they can persuade his grandmother to tear down her house. But it is Recep's nephew Hasan, a high school dropout, recently fallen within right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family in to the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity. By converts deeply moving, entertaining, and terrifying, Silent House pulses with the special energy of your great writer's early work even as it offers beguiling proof the mature genius that Orhan Pamuk would later be celebrated around the world.
