| Snow: Introduction by Margaret Atwood Contributor(s): Pamuk, Orhan (Author), Atwood, Margaret (Introduction by), Freely, Maureen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0307700887 ISBN-13: 9780307700889 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011021505 |
| Series: Everyman's Library |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 5.33" W x 8.16" (1.32 lbs) 460 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Turkey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 pek, 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. |