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.
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2011 by Everyman's Library.
541 pages
Russian language
Published Dec. 17, 2013 by Amfora.
429 pages
Turkish language
Published Dec. 17, 2002 by İletişim.
553 pages
Polish language
Published Dec. 17, 2006 by Wydawn. Literackie.
686 pages
Greek language
Published Dec. 17, 2007 by O keanida.
Hardcover
Published March 1, 2011 by Everyman Paperback Classics.
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2004 by Faber and Faber.
592 pages
Hindi language
Published Dec. 17, 2012 by Peṅguina Buksa.
German language
Published Dec. 17, 2005 by Büchergilde Gutenberg.
621 pages
Arabic language
Published Dec. 17, 2017 by Dār al-Madá.
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