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Snow is the story of a Turkish poet named Ka who returns to Turkey after living in Germany many years.Ka becomes interested in renewing a friendship with a woman who married another man and has now divorced him. The story also involves Ka's journalistic research of girls who are committing suicide allegedly because they are not permitted by Turkish secular law to wear the veil. It is almost the opposite of what is going on in other countries where women are required to wear the veil.

This is an excellent book and beautifully written. It gives you insight to the lives of women in Turkey . Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel prize for literature. There was some controversy over his selection. I have also read "MY NAME IS RED" and enjoyed it immensely. The writing styles are very different . I am currently reading Istanbul, the memoir of Orhan Pamuk.