Snow - Brossura

Pamuk, Orhan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571218318 ISBN 13: 9780571218318

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2005

Riassunto

The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times

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Recensione

'An act of bravery... A vital book.' --Daily Telegraph

'Profound and frequently brilliant... Illuminate[s] the confrontation between secular and extremist Islamic worlds better than any work of non-ficition I can think of.' --New Statesman

'A novel of profound relevance to the present moment.' --The Times

Descrizione del libro

Snow by Orhan Pamuk is the bestselling story of a poet seeking his lost love in a remote Turkish town riven by religious conflict and cut off from the world by a blizzard.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0571218318
• ISBN 13: 9780571218318
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448