The novel starts in an old, big and silent house in Cennethisar which is a part of Gebze.
Therefore, the novel carries the influence of the great political tension.īehçet Necatigil summarizes the plot of the novel: One of the five narrators of Silent House, historian Faruk does some research on Ottoman History in an archive in Gebze which is a small town near Istanbul. Silent House takes place just one month before the military coup of September 12 in Turkey. The book takes place in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul. The novel makes use of stream of consciousness and internal monologue. The distribution of the chapters to the narrators are as following: Hasan has eight, Buyukhanim seven, Recep six, Faruk six, and Metin has five chapters. The narrator of the opening chapter is Recep and the narrator of the closing chapter is Buyukhanim.Įach of the narrators has a different number of chapters to tell. The names of the five narrators in the novel in turn are Recep, Fatma, Hasan, Faruk and Metin. Each chapter is narrated from a different narrator's point of view in the first person.
The book has received positive retrospective reviews from critics. The novel tells the story of a week in which three siblings go to visit their grandmother in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul. Silent House (1983) is Orhan Pamuk's second novel published after Cevdet Bey and His Sons.
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