Title: Sessiz ev
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
Time periods: 1980, summer of 1980, 20th century, Siglo XX