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" Snow / "
Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.
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BL
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1044182
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b798552
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| Uniform Title
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Kar.English
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| Main Entry
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Pamuk, Orhan,1952-
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Snow /\ Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.
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1st American ed.
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New York :: Knopf :: Distributed by Random House,, 2004.
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Book club kit
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425 pages ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0375406972
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: 0375706860
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: 1400089336
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: 9780375406973
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: 9780375706868
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: 9781400089338
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| Contents
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The journey to Kars -- The outlying districts -- Poverty and history -- Ka meets İpek in the New Life Pastry Shop -- The first and last conversation between the murderer and his victim -- Love, religion, and poetry: Muhtar's sad story -- At party headquarters, police headquarters, and once again in the streets -- Blue and rüstem -- A nonbeliever who does not want to kill himself -- Snow and happiness -- Ka with Sheikh Efendi -- The sad story of Necip and Hicran -- A walk through the snow with Kadife -- The dinner conversation turns to love, head scarves, and suicide -- At the National Theater -- Necip describes his landscape and Ka recites his poem -- A play about a girl who burns her head scarf -- A revolution onstage -- The night of the revolution -- While Ka slept and when he woke the next morning -- Ka in the cold rooms of terror -- Sunay Zaim's military and theatrical careers -- With Sunay at military headquarters -- The six-sided snowflake -- Ka with Kadife in the hotel room -- Blue's statement to the West -- Ka urges Turgut Bey to sign the statement -- Ka with İpek in the hotel room -- In Frankfurt -- A short spell of happiness -- The secret meeting at the Hotel Asia -- On love, insignificance, and Blue's disappearance -- The fear of being shot -- The mediator -- Ka with Blue in his cell -- Bargaining in which life vies with theater, and art with politics -- Preparations for the play to end all plays -- An enforced visit -- Ka and İpek meet at the hotel -- The first half of the chapter -- The missing green notebook -- From İpek's point of view -- The final act -- Four years later, in Kars.
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After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves.
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Hijab (Islamic clothing), Fiction.
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Poets, Turkish, Fiction.
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Hijab (Islamic clothing)
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Poets, Turkish.
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Kars (Turkey), Fiction.
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Turkey, Fiction.
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Kars (Turkey), Fiction.
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Turkey, Kars.
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| Dewey Classification
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894/.3533
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| LC Classification
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PL248.P34K36513 2004
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Freely, Maureen,1952-
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