Snow -- Orhan Pamuk, Paperback

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense--a masterful novel of political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism.

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.

Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else.

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/19/2005
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.27w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780375706868

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 50
New York Times 08/07/2005 pg. 24
Commonweal 12/01/2006 pg. 22
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 99

About the Author
Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.