Book description
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. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside
world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act . . . Orhan
Pamuk's magnificent and bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual
fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless
West, and its fury.
Orhan Pamuk, described as 'one of the freshest, most original
voices in contemporary fiction' (Independent on Sunday), is the author
of many books, including The White Castle, The Black Book and The New
Life. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red,
and in 2004 Faber published the translation of his novel Snow, which
The Times described as 'a novel of profound relevance to the present
moment'. His most recent book was Istanbul, described by Jan Morris as
'irresistibly seductive'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2006. He lives in Istanbul.
