My partner is part of a book club at work, and I thought it might be fun to read the books myself, which is how I came across Orhan Pamuk’s Snow. The novel follows Ka, a Turkish poet living as a political exile in Germany for the past 12 years. After returning to Turkey for his mother’s funeral (which the book doesn’t spend any time on), he heads to the border town of Kars, ostensibly to write an article on girls who have been dying […]