Snow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375706868)

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.

Author: Orhan Pamuk
ISBN-10: 0375706860
ISBN-13: 9780375706868
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2005
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.27w x 1.02d

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