Snow

'A novel of profound relevance to the present moment.' The TimesAs the snow begins to fail, a journalist arrives İn the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, İslamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intellisence service isoviciously effective. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act...ORHAN pamuk's magnîficent and bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non~Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.'Profound and frequently brilliant.. . İlluminate[s] the confrontation betvveen secular and extremist İslamic worlds better than any \vork of non-fiction İ can think of New StatesmanA gripping political thriller .. . Pamuk keeps so many balls in the air that you cannot separate the inquiry into the nature of religious belief from the examination of modern Turkey the investigation of East-West relations, and the nature of art itself Spectator