![]() ![]() ![]() When Ka arrives in Kars, he learns that a heavy blizzard has isolated the city from the rest of the world. Ka has a plan: make İpek fall in love with him and convince her to come to Germany to be his wife. However, Ka’s true motive for visiting Kars is that he hopes to marry the beautiful and elusive İpek Hanim, a former classmate who divorced her husband, Muhtar Bey, three years before. Ka returns to Kars under the pretense of reporting on the rise in suicides among young Muslim women. The protagonist is a Turkish poet known as “Ka.” Ka fled his native Turkey as a political exile 12 years before and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany. The novel is set in Kars, an impoverished city on the eastern border of Turkey. This guide refers to the 2004 Knopf Random House edition of Snow. The novel begins in a traditional third-person omniscient perspective, but in its second half, the novel switches between third-person omniscient and first-person perspective. Snow draws on real-life events in Batman, Turkey, where suicides became endemic among Muslim teenage girls, and this guide contains discussions of suicide. ![]()
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