by Orhan Pamuk · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571222995
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«Snow» is the novel by Orhan Pamuk published by Faber & Faber in paperback (436 pages, in English).
The exiled poet Ka returns to Turkey as a journalist to investigate a wave of suicides among young religious women in the border city of Kars, isolated by heavy snowfall. Between Islamists, the military and the shadow of Europe, his stay becomes entangled in love, poetry and the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey.
The original title of the work is Kar, published in Turkish in 2002. The English edition, translated by Maureen Freely, won the Prix Médicis étranger and the Prix Méditerranée Étranger.
Readers of literary and political fiction interested in modern Turkey and the conflict between tradition and modernity.
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.
