Silent House Av Orhan Pamuk

<p>** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK, NOW **<br><br>Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature<br><br><b>¿One of the greatest and most prophetic of political novelists.¿</b> Guardian Books of the Year<br><b>¿Inspired and impassioned¿ </b>New York Times<br><b>¿Powerful, assured and engaging.¿ </b>Irish Times <br><br><b>A family gathers in the shadow of a revolution, until an outsider brings the action to their door</b><br><br>As the political tension from Turkey¿s tumultuous struggle for modernity builds, an old widow Fatma waits with her faithful servant Recep for her grandchildren to descend for their annual visit. Faruk, a failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and Metin, a high school student who lives the fast life of the nouveaux riches while dreaming of escape.<br><br>The arrival of Recep¿s nephew Hassan, who has recently fallen in with right-wing extremists, draws the family into the growing political cataclysm. As the country wavers toward