by Orhan Pamuk · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375706868
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«Snow» is the novel by Orhan Pamuk, published by Vintage in paperback in 2005 (426 pages, in English).
Ka, an exiled Turkish poet, travels to Kars after a wave of suicides among young women who are barred from wearing the headscarf at school. Isolated by heavy snowfall, the city becomes the stage for a military coup and the clash between religiosity and the secular state, while Ka reunites with Ipek and rediscovers writing.
The work was originally published in Turkish as «Kar» (2002); the English translation is by Maureen Freely. Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction interested in modern Turkey and the conflict between secularism and religion.
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
