Snow (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Orhan Pamuk
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The early 1990's
- Setting: Kars, Turkey, and Frankfurt, Germany
- Principal Characters: “Orhan,”, Ka (Kerim Alakuþoðlu), Ýpek Hanim, Kadife Hanim, Turgut Bey, Blue, Muhtar, Necip, Sunay Zaim, Funda Eser, Serdar Bey, Fazil, Z Demirkol
- Genres: Long fiction, Translation
- Subjects: Love or romance, Islam, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Storms, Muslims, 1990’s, Germany or German people, Snow, Turkey or Turkish people
- Locales: Turkey, Frankfurt, Germany
Snow is set in the small Turkish town of Kars, isolated from the rest of the world for three days by a snowstorm. The plot of the novel is as intricate and symmetrical as the pattern of a snowflake. At the beginning, the center of this rigid form is occupied by the poet Ka, short for Kerim Alakuþoðlu, who arrives in Kars seeking Ýpek, a woman on whom he had a crush many years before. Unfortunately, he finds himself not only cut off from the outside world by the snowstorm but also by a military coup (and increasingly by his own self-destructiveness). In the isolated town, much...
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