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Author : Orhan Pamuk
Pages : pages
Publisher : Vintage International
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0375706860
ISBN-13 : 9780375706868
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One of multiple covers for ISBN 9780375706868.A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings ? for love, art, power, and God ? set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order; by the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings?for love, art, power, and God?set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity?a frozen sea these many years?leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the