Synopsis: After Twelve Years In Political Exile In Germany, A Poet Ka Returns To Istanbul For His Mother'S Funeral, And Takes A Commission To Report On The Municipal Elections In Kars Near The Russian Border. There He Discovers A Dangerous Atmosphere, With Tensions Running High Between The Political Islamists And The 'Enlightened, Pro-Western' Turkish Military. The Second Half Of The Novel Takes Place Over A Three-Day Period. Following The Set-Piece Military Coup, Pamuk Brilliantly Explores Such Themes As Politics, Love, Ethics, Religion And Poetry, As We Gradually Discover The Real Truth Concerning The Poet And The Snow Covered Old-World City Of Kars. From The Inside Flap: Dread, Yearning, Identity, Intrigue, The Lethal Chemistry Between Secular Doubt And Islamic Fanaticism-These Are The Elements That Orhan Pamuk Anneals In This Masterful, Disquieting Novel. 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. Touching, Slyly Comic, And Humming With Cerebral Suspense, "Snow Is Of Immense Relevance To Our Present Moment. "About This Title" May Belong To Another Edition Of This Title.
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Title: Snow
Publisher: Gardners Books
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Good
Isbn 10: 0571218318 / Isbn 13: 9780571218318
₹ 399
