Snow (Revolutionary Writing) - Softcover

As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective.

"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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"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
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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