![]() ![]() ![]() He is invited nightly for dinner with the family and so gets to love her the more he sees her. ![]() Staying at the same hotel that is owned by Ipek's father and where they reside, makes it easy for Ka to see her often. Ka is overwhelmed with his feelings that Ipek is the answer to his dreams, and so Ka pursues her relentlessly during his brief stay in Kars. When Ka sees Ipek again, he is overcome by her beauty, which is far greater than he had remembered. Ka uses the excuse of being a journalist sent to the city to write about the recent suicides of young girls and the upcoming mayoral election. After attending her funeral in Istanbul, Ka travels to the northern city of Kars to visit someone he knew in college and admired from afar, learning that she is recently divorced from her husband. ![]() Ka is an exiled poet, who has returned to Turkey upon the death of his mother. Snow by Orhan Pamuk is a love story set in the volatility of today's Turkey with its clashes between tradition and change and religion and modern atheists-all set in the beautiful, but sometimes treacherous beauty of a border city in the midst of a winter snowstorm. ![]()
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