Snow

By Orhan Pamuk

Subjects: Islamic fundamentalism, Text, Muslim women, Authors, Turkish, Young women, Condiciones sociales, Journalists--turkey--fiction, Exiles, Novela, Exiliados, Muslimin, Autores turcos, Literature, 894.3533, Selbstmord, Turkey, fiction, Poets, Turkish, Fiction, general, Türkischer, General, Kopftuch, Investigations, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, political, Turkish literature, Geschichte 2001 ff, Journalist, Recherche, Turkish Poets, Literary, Hijab (Islamic clothing), Fiction, action & adventure, Roman, Fiction, Pl248.p34 k36513 2004, Ausgabe, Islam and politics, Belletristische Darstellung, Social conditions, Traducciones al espanol, Junge Frau, Turkish Authors, Türkisch, Novela turca, Ficción, Journalists, Istanbul (turkey), fiction

Description: 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, 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.