Snow
Ka, a middle-aged poet, travels to Kars, a town near the Russian border to report on the apparent suicides of girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school, and to find Ipek, a radiant friend of his youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten.
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Poets, Turkish > Fiction. Middle-aged men > Fiction. Suicide victims > Fiction. Suicide > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Kars (Turkey) > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 0307700887
- ISBN: 9780307700889
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Physical Description
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xxvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. - Publisher New York : Everyman's Library, 2011.
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General Note: | Translation of: Kar. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 27.95 |
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Snow : Introduction by Margaret Atwood
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Summary
Snow : Introduction by Margaret Atwood
From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes 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 Ãpek, 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.