Snow

By Orhan Pamuk

ثلج

Orhan Pamuk's novel of a poet exiled to Kars, caught between Islamists, secularists and the 'headscarf girls'.

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1990200020102020

LiteratureIslam and the modern stateDress

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The novel by Orhan Pamuk (2004): the poet Ka returns from exile to the border city of Kars amid a coup, a theatre play and an investigation into the suicides of veiled women, while snow covers everything. 1

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Among Pamuk's most political novels; it asks about secularism and Islam in modern Turkey, two years before the Nobel Prize. 1

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Orhan Pamuk

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