Snow
By: Orhan Pamuk ; translated by Maureen Freely
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9781407402567
Subjects: Journalists; Fiction; Social conditions
Work titles: Kar
Description: 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.
Notes: This translation originally published: London : Faber, 2004.

Translated from the Turkish.
Table of contents: title: The journey to Kars; title: The outlying districts; title: Poverty and history; title: Ka meets Ipek in the New Life Pastry Shop; title: The first and last conversation between the murderer and his victim; title: Love, religion, and poetry: Muhtar's sad story; title: At party headquarters, police headquarters, and once again in the streets; title: Blue and rüstem; title: A nonbeliever who does not want to kill himself; title: Snow and happiness; title: Ka with Sheikh Efendi; title: The sad story of Necip and Hicran; title: A walk through the snow with Kadife; title: The dinner conversation turns to love, head scarves, and suicide; title: At the National Theater; title: Necip describes his landscape and Ka recites his poem; title: A play about a girl who burns her head scarf; title: A revolution onstage; title: The night of the revolution; title: While Ka slept and when he woke the next morning; title: Ka in the cold rooms of terror; title: Sunay Zaim's military and theatrical careers; title: With Sunay at military headquarters; title: The six-sided snowflake; title: Ka with Kadife in the hotel room; title: Blue's statement to the west; title: Ka urges Turgut Bey to sign the statement; title: Ka with Ipek in the hotel room; title: In Frankfurt; title: A short spell of happiness; title: The secret meeting at the Hotel Asia; title: On love, insignificance, and Blue's disappearance; title: The fear of being shot; title: The mediator; title: Ka with Blue in his cell; title: Bargaining in which life vies with theater, and art with politics; title: Preparations for the play to end all plays; title: An enforced visit; title: Ka and Ipek meet at the hotel; title: The first half of the chapter; title: The missing green notebook; title: From Ipek's point of view; title: The final act; title: Four years later, in Kars.