Snow Lesson Plan

Snow is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, originally written in Turkish in 2002. Two years later in 2004, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely. The novel explores a variety of themes, including the political, religious, and cultural divide between the West and the East, feminism, the subjectivity of truth in art, imagination versus reality, and the complicated nature of Turkish identity. It is at once postmodern, pastiche, satirical, detached, and empathetic, following a Turkish poet named Ka as he returns to Turkey after 12 years of living in exile in Germany. Ka claims he has come to the small town of Kars to cover the suicide of young girls, whom the secular state...