BOOKS FROM TURKEY2 Other language editions of Schnee by Orhan Pamuk
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk EN
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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 forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka fin... continue
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Zăpada by Orhan Pamuk RO
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Aparut in 2002, Zapada, romanul cu aer kafkian al lui Orhan Pamuk pare familiar cititorului pasionat. Zapada urmareste un moment din viata unui poet ce revine in inima framintata de umori si conflicte religioase a unui orasel turcesc de provincie. In Kars, totul a luat-o razna, iar locuitorii orasului sint ingroziti de valul de sinucideri ale unor tinere carora li s-a interzis sa poarte val in scoli. Ka revede fosti prieteni si isi reintilneste iubita, Ipek, a carei sora mai tinara este conducatoarea protestatarelor. Odata ce numarul personajelor creste, framintarile in micul oras capata propo... continue