How long does it take to read Silent House?
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk takes about 6 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 362 pages, about 99,550 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a crumbling mansion in a gentrified former fishing village on the Turkish coast, the widow Fatma awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün; and Metin, a high schooler drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riche. Bedridden, Fatma is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf—and her late husband’s illegitimate son. Mistress and servant share memories, and grievances, from the past. But the arrival of Recep’s cousin, Hasan, a fervent right-wing nationalist, threatens to draw the family into the political cataclysm arising from Turkey’s tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity. Written in the 1980s but never before published in English, this spellbinding novel is a stunning addition to the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk.
Subjects: Fiction, Family, History, Families, Politics and government, Coups d'état
