| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
425 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Book club kit
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Language |
English, translated from the Turkish. |
| Subject |
Poets, Turkish -- Fiction.
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Kars (Turkey) -- Fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Poets, Turkish. (OCoLC)fst01068062
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Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01069297
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Turkey -- Kars.
(OCoLC)fst01223526
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Turkey -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726702
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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Political fiction, Turkish.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Political fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Magic realist fiction.
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| Added Author |
Freely, Maureen, 1952-
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| Added Title |
Kar. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Pamuk, Orhan, 1952- Kar. English. Snow. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004 (OCoLC)647636037 |
| ISBN |
0375406972 |
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9780375406973 |
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1400089336 |
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9781400089338 |
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0375706860 |
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9780375706868 |
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