The Nobel Prize–winner’s second novel to appear in an Everyman edition is a spellbinding story of a poet seeking his lost love in a remote Turkish town riven by religious conflict and cut off
from the world by a blizzard.
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the
epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced �pek, a friend of Ka’s youth whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger
sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends on Kars, violence between the military and local Islamic radicals begins to explode, and Ka finds his sympathies
drawn in unexpected and dramatic directions.
