Publikace: Snow - Orhan neuveden; Pamuk. 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. Publikace: Snow - Orhan neuveden; Pamuk. Nach zwölf Jahren Exil in Deutschland kehrt der Dichter Kar nach Istanbul zurück und wird aufgefordert, mit einer Wahlbeobachtungskommission in eine entlegene Provinzstadt zu reisen. Dort herrscht eine bedrohliche Stimmung zwischen Islamisten und aufgeklärtem Militär... Ein packender Politthriller von einem der führenden türkischen Autoren.From the award-winning author of the bestselling My Name Is Red comes a stunning new political thriller.