Snow
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.77 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307700887 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 460 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Nobel Prize–winner’s second novel to appear in an Everyman edition is a spellbinding story of a poet seeking his lost love in a remote Turkish town riven by religious conflict and cut off from the world by a blizzard.Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced Ýpek, a friend of Ka’s youth whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends on Kars, violence between the military and local Islamic radicals begins to explode, and Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected and dramatic directions.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. But Kars is a tangle of poverty-stricken families, Kurdish separatists, political Islamists (including Ipek's spirited sister Kadife) and Ka finds himself making compromises with all in a desperate play for his own happiness. Ka encounters government officials, idealistic students, leftist theater groups and the charismatic and perhaps terroristic Blue while trying to convince Ipek to return to Germany with him; each conversation pits warring ideologies against each other and against Ka's own weary melancholy. Pamuk's sometimes exhaustive conversations and descriptions create a stark picture of a too-little-known part of the world, where politics, religion and even ha
M. Nolan said The writer turns out a compelling story mixing culture (Turkey vs western Europe) politics and of course love. I recommend it ve. This is a very interesting novel that takes place in Turkey about "The writer turns out a compelling story mixing culture (Turkey vs western Europe) politics and of course love. I recommend it ve" according to M. Nolan. This is a very interesting novel that takes place in Turkey about 20 years ago so it is very timely in regards to what is happening politically in the world today, even with a coup within the small town of Kars, where it takes place. The writer turns out a compelling story mixing culture . 0 years ago so it is very timely in regards to what is happening politically in the world today, even with a coup within the small town of Kars, where it takes place. The writer turns out a compelling story mixing culture . A. D. said Promising first half. Was good until 1/"Promising first half" according to A. D.. Was good until 1/2 way through, and then. I just couldn't keep going. The rest seemed repetitive and unnecessary for something that had started off so engaging and which had totally immersed me! I felt like it was stale & had totally direction mid-way through.. way through, and then. I just couldn't keep going. The rest seemed repetitive and unnecessary for something that had started off so engaging and which had totally immersed me! I felt like it was stale & had totally direction mid-way through.. Bound to be a classic Most of the glowing reviews sum it up quite well; this is a brilliant and complex novel examining individual and cultural identity. Pamuk's piles (literally, with Snow) the symbolism on in so many different waysThe book flirts with magical realism and yet is an in-depth character study th