Nieve

A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings ?for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides lead him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Pamuk creates a stark picture of a too-little known part of the world, illuminating the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world.Pamuk, Orhan is the author of 'Nieve ', published 2006 under ISBN 9789707701595 and ISBN 9707701595.