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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. ENGROSSING: SUMPTUOUS: THRILLING: SUBLIME: SPELLBINDING: ILLUMINATING: COMPREHENSIVE: BRILLIANT: NEW First American Edition hardcover (Orig. 2009) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $26.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf corner BUT w/ all inside corners neatly clipped 0.25" on the diagonal * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.42", 0.80 kg, xii+426+viii (558) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the acclaimed author of "My Name Is Red" ("a SUMPTUOUS thriller" -John Updike. "chockful of sublimity & sin" -NYTBR) comes a SPELLBINDING tale of disparate yearnings--for love, art, power, & 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 Russian border & the epicenter of the suicides. No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman & then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty & paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town & seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek & the desperate hope for love?-or at least a wife-?that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, & even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion & spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted & the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness. Blending profound sympathy & mischievous wit, "Snow" illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual & collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance & comprehension of the needs & duties. HIGH PRAISE for "SNOW" : "Not only an ENGROSSING feat of tale-spinning, but ESSENTIAL reading for our times. "Snow" is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes & in the nature of the repression & rage & conspiracies & violence it depicts." -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR "Powerful. Astonishingly timely. A deft melding of political intrigue & philosophy, romance & noir." -Megan O'Grady, Vogue * ABOUT ORHAN PAMUK: ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel "My Name Is Red" won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. "PAMUK has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin, or Proust's Paris--a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own." -from the Nobel Presentation Speech. * HIGH PRAISE FOR ORPAN PAMUK: "Essential reading for our times: In Turkey, Pamuk is the equivalent of a rock star, guru, diagnostic specialist, & potential pundit. The Turkish public reads his novels as if taking its own pulse. -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR. "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence & arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike, The New Yorker. "Pamuk's is an astonishing achievement." -TLS (London). Codice articolo 010163
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st US Edition. 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 finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding God may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment. Book. Codice articolo 042147
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