"Silent House" by Orhan Pamuk ***

• Turkish author
• Originally published 1983, first translation to English published 2012
• Nobel Laureate
• Review:   This novel, although translated and released in English in 2012, was actually one of Pamuk's early works, originally published in 1983.  It was interesting to read this early novel now, after having read almost all of his later works.  There are glimmers of the masterful writer in this story, but it is nowhere near the eloquent, finely crafted quality of his current writing.  Clearly, even from his earliest writing, Pamuk attempts to blend literary and political elements to convey through fiction, the political, social climate in Turkey at the time of significant events.  I am just happy to have read his later, magnificent works.  He is one of my all-time favorite authors!