Snow
Author
Original Work
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Year
2005
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
425
ISBN
978-0375706868
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 from the Nobel Prize winner. 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.— Google Books
Press Reviews
- The Guardianby James Lasdun · Jan 2010
<p>James Lasdun enjoys a masterpiece of storytelling</p>
- The Guardianby John Mullan · Oct 2007
<p>John Mullan enjoys a behind-the-scenes look at Orhan Pamuk's writing life in Other Colours.</p>
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