![]() The narrator tells us that his old friend, the poet, disliking his full name, has always preferred to be known by his initials, as "Ka". A 42-year-old Turkish poet, now based in Frankfurt, is travelling to Kars to write an investigative report covering events that occurred recently in the town: the killing of the town's mayor, and the so-called suicide epidemic among the `headscarf girls' of this town where, at this juncture, the Islamists are almost sure of victory in the municipal elections. Snow, Pamuk's new novel, is set in the small Turkish town of Kars, near the Armenian border. My Name is Red opens, for example, with the narration of a dead man and continues to become a rich layering of many voices. Beginning in the realist tradition of storytelling, Pamuk moved to a more complex post-modern style reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. When his last novel, My Name Is Red, a compelling mythical-historical narrative, won the IMPAC Dublin Award in 2003, it was only the latest in a series of awards. Born in Istanbul in 1952, he has continued to live there barring a three-year period outside the country. ![]() ![]() THE Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk is the author of seven novels. Snow by Orhan Pamuk Faber and Faber pages 436, 12.99. ![]()
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