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Snow

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#384128-UE8
Titel	Snow
Auteur	Pamuk, Orhan
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Faber & Faber
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0571218318
ISBN13	9780571218318
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cere... (Lees verder)bral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times
Pagina's	436
Conditie	Goed — Stamp on first endpaper.
Prijs	€ 7,00

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