A forty-year-old Turkish intellectual named Ka travels to the snowy backwaters of Kars to write an article about the epidemic of suicides that has swept this impoverished town. Upon arrival, the hero finds himself at the center of a complex political intrigue involving Islamists, Kemalists (supporters of the Europeanization of Turkey), Kurdish nationalists and other exotic characters.
A forty-year-old Turkish intellectual named Ka travels to the snowy backwaters of Kars to write an article about the epidemic of suicides that has swept this impoverished town. Upon arrival, the hero finds himself at the center of a complex political intrigue involving Islamists, Kemalists (supporters of the Europeanization of Turkey), Kurdish nationalists and other exotic characters. However, the energetic detective story serves Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer No. 1, only as an excuse to speak on a key topic for him — about the essence and methods of resolving the eternal confrontation between East and West.
Amphora, 542 p.