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The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to investigate troubling reports of suicide in the small and mysterious city of Kars on the Turkish border. The snow is falling fast as he arrives, and soon all roads are closed. There's a 'suicide epidemic' amongst young religious women forbidden to wear their headscarves. Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself pursued by terrorism in a city wasting away under the shadow of Europe. In the midst of growing religious and political violence, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. 'A novel of profound relevance to our present moment' The Times
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"A major work . . . conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor . . . entirely contemporary . . . with suspense at every dimpled vortex . . . Pamuk is gifted with a light, absurdist touch . . . In Turkey . . . to write with honest complexity about such matters as head scarves and religious belief takes courage. Pamuk [is] that country's most likely candidate for the Nobel Prize."
-John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times . . . Snow is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts . . . [Pamuk] deserves to be better known in North America, and no doubt he will be."
-Margaret Atwood, "New York Times Book Review
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Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir. Vogue
Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
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"Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir." --Vogue
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
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-John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times . . . Snow is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts . . . [Pamuk] deserves to be better known in North America, and no doubt he will be."
-Margaret Atwood, "New York Times Book Review
"
"Powerful . . . Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding o
Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir. Vogue
Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
"
"Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir." --Vogue
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
Part political thriller, part absurdist farce, part love story, Orhan Pamuk's second novel to appear in an Everyman edition has a contemporary setting - a remote Turkish city where Eastern and Western values overlap and collide.
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- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0571222994
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