Snow - Orhan Pamuk

Section: Translated Novels

Number of pages: 452 pages

Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications

Rubble hides what is beneath it, and snow covers the ashes of the city. This is how Kars - one of the cities of Anatolia - appears far from Istanbul, drowning in poverty, political divisions and misery. Ka's journey was not an ordinary one. Ka is a talented poet who returned to Istanbul after obtaining political asylum from Germany to attend the funeral of his mother Aypek. She was not the love of his life, she was just his classmate. What reminds him of her is her special beauty and her compelling attraction. One of his friends married her and she had recently separated from him. When he learned of her presence in Kars, he was excited to go to her and her image took over him. Ka suffers from loneliness and emptiness, and the water in his poetry has dried up for years, and with exile sadness enveloped him wherever he went, so why doesn't he seek refuge with her? Why doesn't he marry her and return with her to Frankfurt?