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Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Synopsis: Long exiled from his native Turkey, Ka travels to the far-flung Anatolian city of Kars on the eve of its municipal elections to investigate the wave of female suicides that has struck the town for an Istanbul newspaper. He arrives in a blizzard of such proportions that it will cut Kars off from the outside world for three momentous days. A coup is quite literally staged before elections can take place. Ka finds himself drawn into a bitter and dangerous struggle between the extreme Islamists, set to win the violently aborted elections, and the secular state. Before he leaves Kars, far way from Westernised Istanbul, and far, far away from the German city in which he lives, Ka’s world will have been turned upon its head and his heart irrevocably broken.
In this tense thriller, punctuated by extraordinary moments of black farce, Orhan Pamuk explores the political entanglements that bedevil modern Turkey, not least the gulf between religious fundamentalism and secularism, and the intolerance that characterises both sides of that debate.
First Line: The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus-driver.
[ skrevet av ladislav pekar ]
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