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Snow : a novel / Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.

By: Pamuk, Orhan.
Contributor(s): Freely, Maureen [translator.].
New York, NY, USA : Alfred A. Knopf 2004Edition: First American edition.Description: xii, 463 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0375706860 (pbk).Subject(s): Kars (Turkey) -- Fiction | Poets, Turkish -- Fiction | Political fiction, TurkishDDC classification: 894.3533 P19
Contents:
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
Awards: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.Summary: 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
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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

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

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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