Snow
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 3/31/2015
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Synopsis (credit: front flap)
The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about the troubling events in the small and mysterious city of Kars near the Armenian border.
The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. He discovers a city plagued by a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women, and where the Islamists are poised to win the municipal elections. If he wants to understand what's happened to this part of the world during his absence, this is the place to begin.
On the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List.
(Bought second-hand at the CAFDA Charity Bookshop, Warwick Street, Claremont.)
I'm not sure how this book ended up on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. At first I thought it was merely that the book could do with a few more rounds of editing, but then I realised the flaws ran deeper. Many of the characters were not convincing for me, and I suspect there was a measure of oversimplification of the issues at stake.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (1/10/2023 UTC) at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
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Donated to Help the Rural Child, a charity second-hand bookshop.
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