Silent House (PB)

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes an unforgettable novel about a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of an impending military coup that's “threaded through with ideas about history religion memory class and politics” (The New York Times Book Review). 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.