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Snow by Orhan Pamuk and translated by Maureen Freely. (2004, Hardcover).
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- ISBN
- 9780375406973
- Book Title
- Snow
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Political
- Item Weight
- 26.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375406972
ISBN-13
9780375406973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6056756
Product Key Features
Book Title
Snow
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
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LCCN
2003-065935
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A major work . . . conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor . . . entirely contemporary . . . with suspense at every dimpled vortex . . . Pamuk is gifted with a light, absurdist touch . . . In Turkey . . . to write with honest complexity about such matters as head scarves and religious belief takes courage. Pamuk [is] that country's most likely candidate for the Nobel Prize." John Updike,The New Yorker "Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times . . .Snowis eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts . . . [Pamuk] deserves to be better known in North America, and no doubt he will be." Margaret Atwood,New York Times Book Review "Powerful . . . Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir . . . [Snow] is forever confounding our expectations." Megan O'Grady,Vogue "From the Golden Horn, with a wicked grin, the political novel makes a triumphant return . . . As if Nabokov and Rushdie had taken their circus act on the road, or Carlos Fuentes were Anatolian instead of Aztec, or Milan Kundera remembered how to laugh." John Leonard,Harper's Magazine "[A] great and almost irresistibly beguiling novelist . . . [Snow] is enriched by the author's mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller's playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost." Richard Eder,New York Times "Richly detailed . . . A thrilling plot ingeniously shaped . . . Vividly embodies and painstakingly explores the collision of Western values with Islamic fundamentalism . . . An astonishingly complex, disturbing view of a world we owe it to ourselves to better understand." -Kirkus Reviews From the British reviews ofSnow "A novel of profound relevance to the present moment. The debate between the forces of secularism and those of religious fanaticism is conducted with subtle, painful insight into the human weakness that can underlie both impulses." -Bel Mooney,The Times "'How much can we ever know about love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?' Such questions haunt the poet Ka . . . [in] this novel, as much about love as it is about politics." -Sarah Emily Miano,The Observer "Profound and frequently brilliant . . . Pamuk shows decisively that the European novel remains a form, and a freedom, for which we have reason to be thankful . . .Snowilluminate[s] the confrontation between secular and extremist Islamic worlds better than any work of nonfiction I can think of." -Julian Evans,New Statesman "Snowhas already been a bestseller in Turkey - given Pamuk's stature as a novelist and the novel's content it could hardly fail to be. But what makes it a brilliant novel is its artistry. Pamuk keeps so many balls in the air that you cannot separate the inquiry into the nature of religious belief from the examination of modern Turkey, the investigation of East-West relations, and the nature of art itself ... All this rolled into a gripping political thriller." -John de Falbe,Spectator "What a pleasure it is when we come across some really fine fiction now and again. From its opening words, Or, "A major work . . . conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor . . . entirely contemporary . . . with suspense at every dimpled vortex . . . Pamuk is gifted with a light, absurdist touch . . . In Turkey . . . to write with honest complexity about such matters as head scarves and religious belief takes courage. Pamuk [is] that country's most likely candidate for the Nobel Prize." John Updike, The New Yorker "Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times . . . Snow is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts . . . [Pamuk] deserves to be better known in North America, and no doubt he will be." Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review "Powerful . . . Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir . . . [Snow] is forever confounding our expectations." Megan O'Grady, Vogue "From the Golden Horn, with a wicked grin, the political novel makes a triumphant return . . . As if Nabokov and Rushdie had taken their circus act on the road, or Carlos Fuentes were Anatolian instead of Aztec, or Milan Kundera remembered how to laugh." John Leonard, Harper's Magazine "[A] great and almost irresistibly beguiling novelist . . . [Snow] is enriched by the author's mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller's playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost." Richard Eder, New York Times "Richly detailed . . . A thrilling plot ingeniously shaped . . . Vividly embodies and painstakingly explores the collision of Western values with Islamic fundamentalism . . . An astonishingly complex, disturbing view of a world we owe it to ourselves to better understand." -Kirkus Reviews From the British reviews of Snow "A novel of profound relevance to the present moment. The debate between the forces of secularism and those of religious fanaticism is conducted with subtle, painful insight into the human weakness that can underlie both impulses." -Bel Mooney, The Times "'How much can we ever know about love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?' Such questions haunt the poet Ka . . . [in] this novel, as much about love as it is about politics." -Sarah Emily Miano, The Observer "Profound and frequently brilliant . . . Pamuk shows decisively that the European novel remains a form, and a freedom, for which we have reason to be thankful . . . Snow illuminate[s] the confrontation between secular and extremist Islamic worlds better than any work of nonfiction I can think of." -Julian Evans, New Statesman "Snow has already been a bestseller in Turkey - given Pamuk's stature as a novelist and the novel's content it could hardly fail to be. But what makes it a brilliant novel is its artistry. Pamuk keeps so many balls in the air that you cannot separate the inquiry into the nature of religious belief from the examination of modern Turkey, the investigation of East-West relations, and the nature of art itself ... All this rolled into a gripping political thriller." -John de Falbe, Spectator "What a pleasure it is when we come across some really fine fiction now and again. From its o
Dewey Decimal
894.3533
Table Of Content
Part 1 - The Asia-Pacific Coastal Zone1 Importance of Global Change for Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region Nick Harvey and Nobuo Mimura1.1 INTRODUCTION1.2 IMPORTANCE OF THE ASIA PACIFIC COASTAL REGION1.3 APN AND ITS COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT SYNTHESIS1.4 SCOPE OF THIS BOOK1.4.1 Definition of the Asia-Pacific coastal region1.4.2 Definition of the Coastal Zone1.5 STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK1.6 REFERENCES2 State of the Environment in the Asia and Pacific Coastal Zones and Effects of Global ChangeNobuo Mimura2.1 INTRODUCTION2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT2.2.1. Coastal Changes2.2.2. Water and Sediment Pollution2.2.3. Coastal ecosystems2.2.4. Fisheries and aquaculture2.3 POPULATION GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS DRIVERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS2.4 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA LEVEL RISE2.5 CONCLUSIONS: RESPONSE BY INTEGRATED COASTAL MANAGEMENT2.6 REFERENCES Part 2 - New Directions in Research3 Approaches to Coastal Management In The Asia-Pacific RegionNick Harvey and Mike Hilton3.1 INTRODUCTION3.2 INTEGRATED COASTAL MANAGEMENT3.3 DRIVERS OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT3.3.1 International conventions and agreements3.3.2 Globalisation3.3.3 Non-governmental Organisations3.3.4 Climate change science, coastal hazards and coastal erosion3.3.5 Scientific collaboration within the Region3.3.6 Coastal environment degradation & resource depletion3.3.7 Community Participation & Recognition of Indigenous Peoples Rights and Traditional Practices3.4 COASTAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN THE REGION3.4.1 Coastal management in the Pacific3.4.2 Coastal management in Southeast Asia3.4.3 Comparative assessment of ICM practice throughout the Asia-Pacific region3.5 THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE REGION3.6 FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR COASTAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH3.7 REFERENCES4 Catchment-Coast Interaction in the Asia-Pacific RegionShu Gao4.1 INTRODUCTION4.2 REGIONAL CATCHMENT AND COAST CHARACTERISTICS4.2.1 Patterns of catchment hydrological cycling4.2.2 Sediment yield and input to coastal waters4.2.3 River channel morphological evolution4.2.4 Accretion and erosion patterns in the estuary and on the adjacent coast4.2.5 Saline water intrusion patterns in the estuary4.2.6 Nutrient/pollutant emissions and water quality changes4.2.7 Influences of the material (sediment/nutrient/pollutant) input on estuarine and adjacent continental shelf ecosystems4.2.8 Influences of large estuarine/coastal engineering schemes4.3. PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH CATCHMENT-COAST SYSTEMS4.3.1 Processes of catchment hydrological changes4.3.2 Retention of sediment within catchment-coast systems4.3.3 Sediment mobility in estuarine and coastal waters with source-sink changes4.3.4 Estuarine and coastal morphodynamic processes4.3.5 Changing mixing and dispersion processes for nutrients and pollutants4.3.6 Processes for estuarine and coastal ecosystem evolution4.3.7 Comparison between large and small catchment-coast systems4.4 METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR INVESTIGATIONS4.4.1 Process modeling approaches to material discharges4.4.2 Modeling river channel and delta evolution4.4.3 Geochemical tracing method to define material retention4.4.4 Forward modeling of the formation of sedimentary records to identify the evolution history of the catchment-coast system4.4.5 Database for the simulation of catchment-coast system behaviour4.4.6 Methods to generate appropriate scenarios for future management4.4.7 Artificial intelligence tools for integrated catchment-coast management4.5 APPLICATIONS TO CATCHMENT-COAST DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT4.5.1 Regional planning for future catchment-coast development4.5.2 Protection of coastal wetland and coral reef ecosystems4.5.3 Managing estuarine and coastal environmental changes4.5.4 Potential for coastal land reclamation4.5.5 Managing aggregate resources in the river channel and coastal areas4.5.6 Flood defense4.5.7 Water quality improvement and ecosystem health4.5.8 Sustainable utilisation of biological resources4.5.9 Prospe
Synopsis
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red ("a sumptuous thriller"John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" New York Times Book Review ), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearningsfor love, art, power, and Godset in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiositya frozen sea these many yearsleads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides. No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman and then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty and paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town and seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek and the desperate hope for loveor at least a wifethat she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, and even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion and spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted and the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness. Blending profound sympathy and mischievous wit, Snow illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance and comprehension of the needs and duties, From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red ("a sumptuous thriller"-John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin"- New York Times Book Review ), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings-for love, art, power, and God-set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity-a frozen sea these many years-leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides. No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman and then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty and paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town and seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek and the desperate hope for love-or at least a wife-that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, and even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion and spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted and the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness. Blending profound sympathy and mischievous wit, Snow illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance and comprehension of the needs and duties
LC Classification Number
PL248.P34K36513 2004
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