tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514670074360507153.post1362611141447173725..comments2023-07-29T06:30:40.592-04:00Comments on Those Headcoverings: History and Headscarves in Politics - TurkeyLisaM at ThoseHeadcoveringshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802987214219777442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6514670074360507153.post-72637801066495483662012-01-11T13:26:13.921-05:002012-01-11T13:26:13.921-05:00Anyone interested in this absolutely must read Orh...Anyone interested in this absolutely must read Orhan Pamuk!:D He won the nobel price in 2006 and I would definitly recommend his novel Kar from 2002 -In English translation, Snow, 2004It is not only in the West that veils has been forbidden from public spaces. Sveral middle eastern countries, amongst them turkey have had/has similar laws.<br /><br />Snow takes place in a smalltown in Turkey in the early 1990. Some women at this University refuse to stop wearing veils when they are told to do so by the secular, nationalistic politicans in charge. They become put under a hell of a lot of (different kinds of) pressures! Other women join them in protest and one woman gets so emotionally pressured that she gets deeply depressed and feels life is meaningless and commits suicide! <br /><br />All that has alredy happened when the real story starts. The most apparent character of the veiled girls is an ex-model, who came there from a vesternized life in Istanbul. she came first out of curiosity, to meet girls who apparently liked to wear veils. She then became one of them and even their leader! The politicians decide to focus on making her take of her veil to break the whole group. They both threats and tempts her. The end is very suprising, I would say neither side wins. <br /><br />If you should read any part of this book read about the theatre-cup!:) It is two theatre shows in the end of the book and the second one is the most hypnotical, physologically scary thing i´ve ever read!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com