Description

Author/Contributor(s):	Pamuk, Orhan
Publisher:	Vintage
Date:	7/19/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 forlorncity of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religiousgirls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memoriesof the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.

Amid blanketing snowfall and universalsuspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband toa charismatic terrorist.A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatricalevening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everythingelse.