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a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings?for love, art, power, and God?set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order.
Vintage International Series
Vintage
July 2005
448 pages ISBN: 0375706860 Trade Size
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Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry
between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the
elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful,
disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to
Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His
ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among
religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But
Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now
recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds
himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband
to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with
ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a
massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing
everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with
cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our
present moment.
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