Silent House, Orhan Pamuk award-winning " Henry David Thoreau dedicated

" Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist

and culture to broader investigations of power

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Silent House, Orhan Pamuk award-winning " Henry David Thoreau dedicatedFIRST US EDITION. 2012 Faber trade paperback, Orhan Pamuk (My Name Is Red). In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a 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, ran afoul of the sultans grand vizier and arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her constant servant