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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. the New York Times Sunday Book Review - Margaret Atwood this Seventh Novel From The Turkish Writer Orhan Pamuk Is Not Only An Engrossing Feat Of Tale-spinning, But Essential Reading For Our Times. The journey to Kars The outlying districts Poverty and history Ka meets İpek in the New Life Pastry Shop The first and last conversation between the murderer and his victim Love, religion, and poetry: Muhtar's sad story At party headquarters, police headquarters, and once again in the streets Blue and Rüstem A nonbeliever who does not want to kill himself Snow and happiness Ka with Sheikh Efendi The sad story of Necip and Hicran A walk through the snow with Kadife The dinner conversation turns to love, head scarves, and suicide At the National Theater Necip describes his landscape and Ka recites his poem A play about a girl who burns her head scarf A revolution onstage The night of the revolution While Ka slept and when he woke the next morning Ka in the cold rooms of terror Sunay Zaim's military and theatrical careers With Sunay at military headquarters The six-sided snowflake Ka with Kadife in the hotel room Blue's statement to the west Ka urges Turgut Bey to sign the statement Ka with İpek in the hotel room In Frankfurt A short spell of happiness The secret meeting at the Hotel Asia On love, insignificance, and Blue's disappearance The fear of being shot The mediator Ka with Blue in his cell Bargaining in which life vies with theater, and art with politics Preparations for the play to end all plays An enforced visit Ka and İpek meet at the hotel The first half of the chapter The missing green notebook From İpek's point of view The final act Four years later, in Kars. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of'political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir'(Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner.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—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner. 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. After years of political exile in Western Europe, Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral, where he learns of a series of bizarre events that have changed his childhood hometown and threaten its future After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves 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