Edition |
1st Vintage International ed. |
Description |
425 p. ; 21 cm. |
Note |
"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf ... New York, in 2004"--T.p. verso. |
Contents |
The journey to Kars -- The outlying districts -- Poverty and history -- Ka meets Ipek in the New Life Pastry Shop -- The first and last conversation between the murderer and his victim -- Love, religion, and poetry: Muhtar's sad story -- At party headquarters, police headquarters, and once again in the streets -- Blue and Rustem -- A nonbeliever who does not want to kill himself -- Snow and happiness -- Ka with Sheikh Efendi -- The sad story of Necip and Hicran -- A walk through the snow with Kadife -- The dinner conversation turns to love, head scarves, and suicide -- At the National Theater -- Necip describes his landscape and Ka recites his poem -- A play about a girl who burns her head scarf -- A revolution onstage -- The night of the revolution -- While Ka slept and when he woke the next morning -- Ka in the cold rooms of terror -- Sunay Zaim's military and theatrical careers -- With Sunay at military headquarters -- The six-sided snowflake -- Ka with Kadife in the hotel room -- Blue's statement to the west -- Ka urges Turgut Bey to sign the statement -- Ka with Ipek in the hotel room -- In Frankfurt -- A short spell of happiness -- The secret meeting at the Hotel Asia -- On love, insignificance, and Blue's disappearance -- The fear of being shot -- The mediator -- Ka with Blue in his cell -- Bargaining in which life vies with theater, and art with politics -- Preparations for the play to end all plays -- An enforced visit -- Ka and Ipek meet at the hotel -- The first half of the chapter -- The missing green notebook -- From Ipek's point of view -- The final act -- Four years later, in Kars. |
Subject |
Journalists -- Turkey -- Fiction.
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Turkey -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Fiction.
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Added Author |
Freely, Maureen, 1952-
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ISBN |
0375706860 |
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