Snow - Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

Category: Contemporary

Tags: Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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; by the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature., From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearningsfor love, art, power, and Godset in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order., Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mothers funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writers curiositya frozen sea these many yearsleads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides., No soon