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Snow

Introduction by Margaret Atwood

A Novel

By Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Translated by Maureen Freely

By Orhan Pamuk
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Translated by Maureen Freely

By Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk
Read by John Lee

By Orhan Pamuk
Read by John Lee

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $18.00

Jul 19, 2005 | ISBN 9780375706868

Hardcover $24.95

Oct 18, 2011 | ISBN 9780307700889

Ebook $11.99

Dec 05, 2006 | ISBN 9780307386472

Audiobook Download $17.48

Feb 27, 2007 | 1114 Minutes

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    About Snow

    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.

    About Snow

    From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a spellbinding story of a poet seeking his lost love in a remote Turkish town riven by religious conflict and cut off from the world by a blizzard.

    Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced Ýpek, a friend of Ka’s youth whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm descends on Kars, violence between the military and local Islamic radicals begins to explode, and Ka finds his sympathies drawn in unexpected and dramatic directions.

    About Snow

    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.

    About Snow

    “A great and almost irresistibly beguiling . . . novelist. . . . [Snow is] enriched by . . . mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller’s playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost.”–The New York Times

    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.

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    About Orhan Pamuk

    ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Translated by Ekin Oklap.

    About Orhan Pamuk

    ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Translated by Ekin Oklap.

    About Orhan Pamuk

    ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Translated by Ekin Oklap.

    About Orhan Pamuk

    ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Translated by Ekin Oklap.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 19, 2005 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375706868

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $24.95
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 18, 2011 | 460 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780307700889

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 05, 2006 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780307386472

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.48
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 27, 2007 | 1114 Minutes | ISBN 9780739354315

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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

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 2006

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