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Silent House

By: Orhan Pamuk, Robert Finn
Narrated by: Emrhys Cooper, Juliet Mills
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In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She 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. Under the creeping shadow of right-wing nationalism and political revolution, they share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before their home became a high-class resort.
Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun, has yet to discover the real-life consequences of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep's nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalism, who will draw this family into the revolution and the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.
By turns deeply moving, hilarious, and terrifying, Silent House pulses with the energy of a great writer's early work even as it offers beguiling evidence of the mature genius for which Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, would later be world renowned.

©2013 Orhan Pamuk (P)2013 Faber & Faber

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Life is too short to struggle with this book

I give 1 star only to books I don't finish.

I'm half way through and there is absolutely nothing that keeps me engaged with it. The characters are at best uninteresting and at worst... Well the worst...

I suspect it could be interesting to a Turkish reader who has a lot of the background info to relate to the story, the same way as many books about the communist occupation of Bulgaria are only interesting to me as a Bulgarian. 🤷‍♀️

Pity, it's my first Pamuk book and I was rly looking forward and hoping I'd like him/it.

The narrators were absolutely infuriating too, I could not stand the pretentious mannerisms they'd employ to voice characters for which it REALLY didn't work to sound like that.

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