![]() ![]() ![]() The girls have committed suicide over the issue of wearing the veil – or rather the issue of being forced to not wear the veil. ![]() A Turkish poet(who writes poems throughout the book, whose titles are revealed but never the words), Ka, travels to Kars, a cut off town in Anatolia, searching for love, and also to uncover the mystery surrounding a group of “suicide girls”. Pamuk, in Snow, an openly political novel, will be dissapoint many polemicists, but thrill many readers, as he examines the contradictions and complexities in a small Turkish town covered in snow.įrom the outset, the novel confounds expectations. Pamuk, after the publication of Snow may well be viewed as the devil, by Bush, and by both the western looking elites that look forward to a Turkey integrated into the European Union, and by Political Islamisists who brook no examination of life, love and (whisper it) sex, outside of strictly regulated rules. ![]() Bush, in Istanbul in June of 2005 was caught quoting IMPAC literary prize winner Orhan Pamuk, presumably to give a smattering of local flavour, akin to an “Istanbul, you rock”. ‘The Devil can cite scripture for his own purpose’ as we know, whenever complex contradictions in holy books are unearthed. ![]()
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