![]() ![]() Arriving during a blizzard, he feels as if it is "snowing at the end of the world," and when the city is closed to all traffic for three days, "The desolation and remoteness…hit him with such force that he felt God inside him." The rich story-telling tradition of the Middle East enlivens Turkish author Orhan Pamuk's novel about the residents of Kars, a town in the remote northeast corner of Turkey, as Kerim Alakusoglu, known as Ka, returns after many years to investigate a spate of suicides by young women forbidden to wear headscarves in school. If the Europeans are beautiful, I want to be ugly if they're intelligent, I prefer to be stupid if they're modern let me stay pure." I'm proud of the things in me that the Europeans find childish, cruel, and primitive. ![]() "I am proud of the part of me that isn't European. Over to read a review of The Museum of Innocence) ![]() Over to read a review of The Naive and Sentimental Novelist) ![]()
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