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Silent House
Orhan Pamuk
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2012-10-09
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Political
Fiction / Sagas
ISBN
0307958558
9780307958556
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=idM2Hy_HlR0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.
