Snow
Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-
Snow / Orhan Pamuk - New York : Vintage International , c2004 - 425 p. : 25 cm
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.
Translated from the Turkish to English
9780375406973
Turkish literature---Fiction
FIC PAM
Snow / Orhan Pamuk - New York : Vintage International , c2004 - 425 p. : 25 cm
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.
Translated from the Turkish to English
9780375406973
Turkish literature---Fiction
FIC PAM