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Snow Book
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (â??a sumptuous thrillerâ?â??John Updike; â??chockful of sublimity and sinâ?â??New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearningsâ??for love, art, power, and Godâ??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 motherâ??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 writerâ??s curiosityâ??a frozen sea these many yearsâ??leads him … read more...
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