Silent House

Author : Orhan Pamuk
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307402673
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent House written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an old mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village, now a posh resort near Istanbul) the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and the younger grandson, Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. The widow 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. Mistress and servant share memories, and grievances, of those early years. But it is Recep's cousin Hassan, a high school dropout, and fervent right-wing nationalist, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm, in this spell-binding novel depicting Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity. Translated by Robert Finn

Author : Nell Pattison
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008361770
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent House (Paige Northwood, Book 1) written by Nell Pattison and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Don’t miss the new blockbuster thriller from Nell Pattison: HIDE – coming December 2021! Available to pre-order now...**

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146689539X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House written by Peter Handke and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of Salzburg, tells his story to a narrator. The pharmacist is known and well-respected, but lonely and estranged from his wife. He feels most comfortable wandering about in nature, collecting and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. One day he receives a blow to the head that leaves him unable to speak, and the narrative is transformed from ironic description into a collection of sensual impressions, observations and reflections. The pharmacist, who is now called the driver, sets out on a quest, travelling into the Alps with two companions—a former Olympic skiing champion and a formerly famous poet--where he is beaten and later stalked by a woman. He drives through a tunnel and has a premonition of death, then finds himself in a surreal, foreign land. In a final series of bizarre, cathartic events, the driver regains his speech and is taken back to his pharmacy—back to his former life, but forever changed. A powerful, poetic exploration of language, longing and dislocation in the human experience, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House reveals Handke at his magical best.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473378915
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent House in Pimlico written by Fergus Hume and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Fergus Hume was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Silent House in Pimlico' is a tale of intrigue by this famous crime novelist. Fergusson Wright Hume was born on 8th July 1859 in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. The family migrated to New Zealand where Fergus was enrolled at Otago Boys' High School, and later continued his legal and literary studies at the University of Otago. Hume returned to England in 1888 where he resided in London for a few years until moving to the Essex countryside. There he published over 100 novels, mainly in the mystery fiction genre, though none had the success of his début work.

Author : Laura Elliot
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781800190856
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tinderbox written by Laura Elliot and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small hours of a cold winter morning, charcoal grey clouds gather in the sky over Hyland Hall where a young teenage girl is about to make an emergency call to say her life is in danger ... With her marriage in pieces and desperate to find work and a new home for her and daughters, Isobel and Julie, Sophy accepts a job as a live-in nurse for Jack Hyland. Once a magnificent house, Hyland Hall has fallen into disrepair and its owner, Jack, disfigured in a terrible fire that broke out on the property years ago, is now a recluse. As Sophy's daughters struggle to adjust to their new surroundings, exploring every forbidden corner of the house, Sophy does her best to care for Jack and her broken family. But Jack has secrets of his own and Sophy's arrival is about to set in motion a chain of events that will uncover the devastating truth of Hyland Hall's past. A truth that will put her daughters in harm's way. An intense and emotionally engrossing read that will keep you compulsively turning the pages late into the night. If you read one book this year, make it The Tinderbox.

Author : Ed Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765347268
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent House written by Ed Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revered creator of the Forgotten Realms universe delivers the first epic of Aglirta, the world of the Band of Four adventures, a multigenerational tale of a powerful and feared wizardly dynasty.

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465561005
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent House written by Fergus Hume and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1903-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Payson Tenney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.NK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent House written by Edward Payson Tenney and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Severs
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448112516
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 18 Folgate Street written by Dennis Severs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one, a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields, and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time-capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century. From cellar to roof, he filled 18 Folgate Street with original objects and furniture, found in the local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers. More than that, he invented a family to live here, the Jervis family, Huguenot weavers who fled persecution in France in 1688, and bought the house in 1724. Sounds and scents bring their world to life, always just out of sight - floorboards creak, fires crackle, a kettle hisses on the hob. Visitors step through the frame of time, like entering an old master painting. As we move from room to room on a tour you will never forget, we follow the Jervis story from the days of the Georges and the Regency to harsher Victorian times - and even to the attic room of Scrooge himself.

Author : Gary Linderer
Publisher : Ivy Books
ISBN 13 : 0307559769
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Silent Men...Book Three written by Gary Linderer and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eyes and Ears of the Screaming Eagles . . ." By 1969, the NVA had grown more experienced at countering the tactics of the long range patrols, and SIX SILENT MEN: Book Three describes some of the fiercest fighting Lurps saw during the war. Based on his own experience and extensive interviews with other combat vets of the 101st's Lurp companies, Gary Linderer writes this final, heroic chapter in the seven bloody years that Lurps served God and country in Vietnam. These tough young warriors--grossly outnumbered and deep in enemy territory--fought with the guts, tenacity, and courage that have made them legends in the 101st.