The Silent House (novel)

The Silent House (novel)

The Silent House (1983) is Orhan Pamuk's second novel published after Cevdet Bey and His Sons. The novel tells the story of a week in which 3 siblings go to visit their grandmother in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul.

Read more about The Silent House (novel):  General, Time and Place, Plot, Characters, Chapters of The Novel, The Silent House and Stream of Consciousness, The Interpretations of Orhan Pamuk On The Silent House, The Awards That The Silent House Received

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    “So live that when thy summons comes to join
    The innumerable caravan that moves
    To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
    His chamber in the silent halls of death,
    Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
    Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
    By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
    Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
    About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    “Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)