Silent House is Pamuk's second novel, published in 1983. Told through the perspective of five characters and their stream of consciousness in a time-frame of seven days in 1980. (one week before 12 Eylül Darbesi) in Cennethisar (a fictional small city near Istanbul), Silent House is a magnificent story about the downfall of the Darvinoglu family. Pamuk's switching narrative that expands from 90-year-old schizophrenic Fatma Darvinoglu, her midget servant Redžep (child from an affair her late husband Selahattin had with servant), Hasan, Redžep's nephew who's father is the second child from Selahattin's affair all the way through Fatma's grandsons Faruk and Metin is the main reason that makes this novel breath-taking. A complicated spider-web of plots that include escape from religion-prison into science-madness of Selahattin who spent all his life trying to wake up nation covered with the cloak of blind believing with writing never-finished encyclopedia only to die in alcohol sorrow, sad and humiliating life of midget-servant Redžep under the hands of iron lady Fatma who blamed him for the sins of her husband for years, Turkish political tensions in Istanbul foreseen through eyes of Redžep's nephew Hasan who has been involved into young and senseless fighting with tragic ending, finishing with Metin's unsuccessful tries to fit into turquoise lifestyle of rich Istanbul families and his brother's way to rock-bottom and dying from alcohol like his father and grandfather did are only few in the maze of secret motives and light-motives which were always a significiant part in Orhan Pamuk's writings.