Snow

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

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Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner. 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

ISBN: 9780739354308

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"From reading Snow one might easily conclude that all the Armenians of Anatolia had decided for some reason to pick up and depart en masse."

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