Author: Orhan Pamuk
Translator: Nan-a Lee
Publisher: Minumsa
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About This Book
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red ("a sumptuous thriller"?John Updike;
"chockful of sublimity and sin"?New York Times Book Review), comes 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.
Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged
poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's 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 writer's curiosity?a frozen sea these many years?leads him to Kars, a
far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides.
No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are
not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman and then
Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty and paralysis, there is also
Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never
forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town and
seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame
of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong
toward the unknowable Ipek and the desperate hope for love?or at least a
wife?that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to
restrain the local Islamist radicals, and even toward God, whose existence Ka
has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of
emotion and spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing
poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until
the snows have melted and the political violence has run its bloody course will
Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness.
Blending profound sympathy and mischievous wit, Snow illuminates the
contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the
Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance and comprehension of
the needs and duties
About The Author
Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His
work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.
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