Turkey

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk

Summary

A Turkish poet travels to the remote town of Kars, snowbound and cut off, to investigate a wave of suicides among young women forced to remove their headscarves. A brooding meditation on Islamism, secularism, and political violence.

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Orhan Pamuk

Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate (born 1952) whose work bridges East and West, exploring Istanbul's history and Turkey's cultural identity. He has faced legal prosecution in Turkey for statements about the Armenian genocide and Kurdish deaths.

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Published
2002
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Orhan Pamuk