Silent House

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Silent House is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that explores family tensions and Turkey’s turbulent political and social changes on the eve of the 1980 military coup.

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instanceOf novel
author Orhan Pamuk
authorAward Nobel Prize in Literature
surface form: Nobel Prize in Literature (Orhan Pamuk)
countryOfOrigin Turkey
depicts intellectual life in late 20th-century Turkey
pre-coup political unrest in Turkey
student activism in Turkey
EnglishTranslator Robert Finn
explores class differences in Turkish society
impact of modernization on traditional families
rise of nationalist youth in Turkey
tensions between secular and religious groups in Turkey
featuresCharacter Faruk
Fatma Hanim
Hassan
Metin
Nilgün
Recep
genre family saga
literary fiction
political novel
hasEnglishTitle Silent House
hasMotif ideological fanaticism
nostalgia
silence
violence
hasTranslation English
literaryMovement contemporary Turkish literature
mainTheme family tensions
generational conflict
memory and history
political polarization
social change
narrativePerspective shifting viewpoints
narrativeTechnique multiple first-person narrators
originalLanguage Turkish
originalTitle Sessiz Ev
publicationYear 1983
publisherOfEnglishEdition Alfred A. Knopf
surface form: Knopf
relatedWorkByAuthor Snow
The Black Book
The Museum of Innocence
setBefore 1980 Turkish military coup
setInCountry Turkey
setInPeriod late 1970s
settingFeature summer house in a small town near Istanbul

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Orhan Pamuk notableWork Silent House