When you found out that this story is came from turkey,what were your expectations? Were expectations fulfilled? Why or why not?

Snow by Orhan Pamuk is a love story set in the volatility of today's Turkey with its clashes between tradition and change and religion and modern atheists—all set in the beautiful, but sometimes treacherous beauty of a border city in the midst of a winter snowstorm. This question is asking what you know about Turkey. I don't know what your expectations are.