Used Book – Snow, Orhan Pamuk, Jean-François Pérouse

The young Turkish poet Ka leaves his German exile to go to Kars, a sleepy provincial town in Anatolia. On behalf of an Istanbul newspaper, he is investigating several suicides of young women wearing headscarves. But Ka also wants to find the beautiful Ipek, a recently divorced former university friend. Barely arrived in the city of Kars, bustling with activity due to the upcoming elections, he is the object of various attentions: the local police chief, Ipek's sister, the radical Islamist Lazuli living in hiding, or the republican actor Sunay, all try to win him over to their cause. But Ka moves forward, as if in a dream, seeing everything through the filter of his rediscovered poetic inspiration, stimulated by his growing passion for Ipek, and the veil of snow that covers the city. Until the evening when a theatrical performance turns into a military coup and a massacre. An extraordinary suspense novel that, skillfully playing with very contemporary political subjects, such as the identity of Turkish society and the nature of religious fanaticism, surprises with its poetic and nostalgic tone that, like snow, envelops every page.