Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner.
An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of …
Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner.
An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else.
Paperback, 440 pages
English language
Published March 31, 2005 by Gardners Books, Brand: Faber and Faber.
Paperback, 480 pages
English language
Published July 19, 2005 by Vintage.
726 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2007 by W.F. Howes.
Paperback, 488 pages
Portuguese language
Published Dec. 17, 2007 by Editora Campanhia das Letras, Companhia das Letras2, Companhia das Letras.
taschenbuch, 513 pages
German language
Published March 17, 2009 by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.
eBook
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2006 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
425 pages
English language
Published March 17, 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf.
436 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2004 by Faber and Faber.
Paperback, 496 pages
French language
Published Sept. 15, 2005 by GALLIMARD.
Hardcover
Spanish language
Published Oct. 17, 2006 by Alfaguara.
audio cd
English language
Published Feb. 27, 2007 by RH Audio.
Paperback, 498 pages
Spanish language
Published Dec. 17, 2006 by Alfaguara.
Paperback, 464 pages
Published April 13, 2013 by Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, Yap Kredi Yaynlar.
425 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2005 by Vintage International, Vintage.
Paperback, 672 pages
Spanish language
Published June 1, 2007 by Punto De Lectura.
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