Snow
$49.92
- Hardcover
460 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2011
Summary
Part political thriller, part absurdist farce, part love story, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel to appear in an Everyman edition has a contemporary setting - a remote Turkish city where Eastern and Western values overlap and collide.
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593388 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593389 |
| Author: | Orhan Pamuk |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 460 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 136mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics Review
Snow is an in-depth tour of the divided, hopeful, desolate, mystifying Turkish soul. Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times.
Snow is an in-depth tour of the divided, hopeful, desolate, mystifying Turkish soul. Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. – Margaret AtwoodA major work … conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candour and humour … In Turkey, to write with honest complexity about such matters as head scarves and religious belief takes courage. – John Updike
About The Author
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, one of the world’s major living novelists, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.
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