Snow

Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism-these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. 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. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/19/2005
ISBN: 9780375706868
Pages: 425
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.27w x 1.02d

Review Citations: 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