Silent House

　　諾貝爾文學獎得主奧罕‧帕慕克30年前的獲獎小說，首度以英語出版

　　故事發生在1980年土耳其軍事政變期間。靠近伊斯坦堡，當時有一處名叫Cennethisar的高級度假勝地，前身是座小漁村。年輕時，Fatma跟著滿懷理想的醫生丈夫來到這裡，想不到一待就是幾十年。醫生過世後，只有他的私生子Recep照顧她。臥病在床的Fatma，現正等待著每年夏天都會來探望她的孫兒們。

　　來到小漁村的長孫Faruk是個酗酒的歷史學家，孫女Nilgun是一名尋找從政機會的左派份子，還在唸中學的Metin則是渴望著去美國過富裕的生活。當Recep偏右派的侄子Hassan一起加入這場家族聚會後，不同政治立場的眾人，便開始對土耳其長年動盪不安的政治產生激辯，原本溫馨的家庭聚會因此走調……。

　　帕慕克在這部作品裡，試圖以一個平凡家庭對於現代性爭論的分歧來隱喻土耳其國內政治的混亂。（文／博客來編譯）

　　In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor’s illegitimate son. They share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before Cennethisar became a high-class resort.

　　Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep’s nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey’s tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.