He only thinks of poetry, and is a deeply melancholic figure. Ka spent the last twelve years in exile in Frankfurt, though he was never political. Here, the narrator interjects, telling us that he is an old friend of Ka's, and that he is retelling this story from a future point (i.e., that he has knowledge of everything that will befall Ka in Kars). To Ka, snow is a symbol of childhood innocence and purity, and he hopes that this picture of his childhood will help him fit in at Kars. While he sits, he contemplates the silence of the snow around him and reflects on the fact that his coat, which he purchased in Frankfurt, furnishes him with both a sense of security and marks him an outsider in this particularly provincial area. The novel opens with our protagonist, a man named Ka (his initials his actual name is Kerim Alakusoglu) on the bus from Erzurum to Kars.
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