Setting

Snow begins in Istanbul and Ka is going back for the first time to attend his mother's funeral. He then travels to Kars to report on the current elections and the "suicide girls" as well as find Ipek. While on his way to Kars it begins to snow and it continues throughout the novel. When Ka first arrives he writes very fondly of the snow and thinks of it as a memory but as it continues snowing it seems to begin to weigh him down. Throughout his stay in Kars Ka stays at the Snow Palace because he knows that is where he can find Ipek. Once he begins traveling around Kars he begins to see all of the politics involved in all of the businesses. One day he goes to the newspaper printer and reads an article that was already written about him, and he had not even gone to the play, another day he goes to the pastry shop and sees a man get shot that he later finds out is the education director. He finds out from going to all of these places that even places that are rarely visited are full of activity.