Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Welcome to the House -- ONE. Bringing the Turkish House into Focus: Characteristics, Representations, Memories, and Memory -- TWO. The House Takes on the Weight of Historical Consciousness -- THREE. How Fiction Positioned the Turkish House on a Memory Chain of Values -- FOUR. How Literature Is Spiritual Space, and How the Heart Is Superior to the Mind -- FIVE. The New Turkish Landscape and the Desire to Remember -- The Cast of Characters -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- The Cast of Characters -- Bibliography -- Index.