Joudat Bey and his sons

Book name: Ghodet Beyk and his sons Author: Orhan Pamuk Publisher: Shorouk Book category: Novel Summary of the book: An epic novel that monitors the political, economic, and social changes in Turkey during the twentieth century across generations in the Ghodet Beyk family, the first with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, the second with Ataturk's death in the late thirties, and the third with the military coup in the seventies. When Pamuk was asked about the similarity between "Ghodet Beyk and his sons" and Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy, he replied, "I think I share with Mahfouz the relationship of characters with the place, and writing about neighborhoods and streets, and the side conversations and conspiracies told by women. But it's more general than that; I am concerned with the transformation of large families' lives, where they coexist as if they were a unified group, then the family disintegrates from the traditional wooden house to scattered residences within a single building... All this shapes my fictional world, which may resemble Mahfouz's, but also differs from it."