The poet Ka travels to the snowbound Turkish city of Kars to investigate a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear headscarves, and gets swept into local political intrigue, a theatrical coup staged by the actor Sunay Zaim, and his own tangled love for Ipek and reunion with the revolutionary Fazil.
Books mentioned in Snow (6)
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd: “the drama originally inspired by Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy but which in its final form showed many other influences”
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Anyone who knows anything about English poetry will remember the note at the start of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." It explains how the work is a "fragment of a poem, from a vision during a dream"”
First Love by Ivan Turgenev: “Turgut Bey reached shamefacedly into his pocket and pulled out a new edition of First Love, the Turgenev novel he'd translated from the French while he was in prison.”
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad: Epigraph credited: "—Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes"
Bishop Blougram's Apology by Robert Browning: Epigraph credited: "—Robert Browning, 'Bishop Blougram's Apology'"
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk: “I had told him about The Museum of Innocence, an idea I was still keeping from everyone”
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The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “Ka, the poet protagonist of my novel Snow, wrote his poems under the Coleridge-Schiller influence”