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Speaking about Turkish political life in the 1990s, Pamuk's "Snow" actually encompasses the entire process of modernization of the Turkish state. For this novel, Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. The main character of the novel, the poet Ka, returns to Turkey in 1992 after twelve years of political exile in Germany and sets off for Kars, a poor city with an astonishingly rich history, located on the Turkish-Armenian border. Over the course of three cold winter days, under the snow that has cut Kars off from the world, Ka, in the role of a journalist, gets to know this beautiful, sad city and its unhappy and poor inhabitants. Also living in Kars is Silk, Ka's enchanting friend from his youth, recently divorced, never forgotten. And while Kah rushes to Silk in a desperate search for love - or at least a wife - that she embodies, the supernatural beauty of the city and the snow that never stops falling over it inspires him to write: over the course of three days, he compiles an entire collection of poems, and since he is convinced that these poems "come" to him from somewhere, he finds the strength to believe again in the "Allah of the lonely", in love and the possibility of achieving happiness in life...