Abstract
In his controversial book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Samuel P. Huntington hypothesized that Turkey (along with Mexico and Russia) was a "torn" country standing on the threshold between two civilizations (which he categorized as Western and Islamic civilizations). While Huntington's thesis is problematic, it serves as a useful theory for exploring Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow (2004), which recounts the story of protagonist Ka and his return to rural Turkey after many years living in Germany. This essay reads the novel through the lens of texts and theories from the social and political sciences to illuminate the literary and thematic conflicts and struggles within the novel.
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