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
Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or house:
“Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.”
—Maria Montessori (1870–1952)
““A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)