Orhan Pamuk SILENT HOUSE First Edition Signed
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Orhan Pamuk SILENT HOUSE First Edition Signed
First UK edition first print hardback of SILENT HOUSE by Orhan Pamuk and published by Faber & Faber Limited in 2012. Signed by Pamuk on the title page. Translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn. Numberline is 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. 'Signed by Author' sticker to front cover.The book is in fine condition (black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a fine unclipped dust jacket which also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980.
In an old mansion in Cennethisar the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and the younger grandson, Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America.
The widow 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. Mistress and servant share memories, and grievances, of those early years. But it is Recep's cousin Hassan, a high school dropout, and fervent right-wing nationalist, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm, in this spellbinding novel depicting Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.
334 pages
ISBN: 9780571275922
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