Ka reunites with a woman named İpek, whom he once had feelings for, whose father runs the hotel he is staying in. ( September 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The main discussion concerns the interface of secularism and belief but there are references to all of Turkey's twentieth-century history. Temporarily closed off from the world, a farcical coup is staged and linked melodramatically to a stage play. In the midst of this, love and passion are to be found.

Heavy snow cuts off the town for about three days during which time Ka is in conversation with a former communist, a secularist, a fascist nationalist, a possible Islamic extremist, Islamic moderates, young Kurds, the military, the Secret Service, the police and in particular, an actor-revolutionary. He has several motives, first, as a journalist, to investigate a spate of suicides but also in the hope of meeting a woman he used to know. Ka is a poet, who returns to Turkey after 12 years of political exile in Germany. The story is set in the city of Kars which creates a sense of alienation for Ka as the city is unlike anywhere else in Turkey, due to its history as a Russian garrison town. At times, the action seems somewhat dream-like. This narrator sometimes provides the reader with information before Ka knows it or foreshadows later events in the story. Though most of the early part of the story is told in the third person from Ka's point of view, an omniscient narrator sometimes makes his presence known, posing as a friend of Ka's who is telling the story based on Ka's journals and correspondence. An opening (and recurring) theme concerns reasons behind a suicide epidemic among teenage girls (which actually took place in the city of Batman ). Kar is the word for Snow, but the main character also abbreviates his name to Ka (his initials), with the novel set in the eastern Turkish city of Kars. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and deep sympathy with its characters. Published in Turkish in 2002, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004. Snow ( Turkish: Kar) is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.

Turkish novelist orhan pamuk