Snow. Translated by Maureen Freely.

PAMUK, Orhan.

ISBN 10: 0375406972 / ISBN 13: 9780375406973

Published by Alfred A. Knopf,, New York, 2004

About this Item

First U.S. edition / First printing. Signed on the title page by Orhan Pamuk. Black paper spine, red paper-covered boards. 426 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this book. Pamuk was the 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review for their 10 Best Books of 2004 List.

Seller Inventory # 115887

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snow. Translated by Maureen Freely.
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375406972
• ISBN 13: 9780375406973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Signed Books
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (“a sumptuous thriller”–John Updike; “chockful of sublimity and sin”–New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–for love, art, power, and God–set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order.

Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother’s funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer’s curiosity–a frozen sea these many years–leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides.

No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka’s motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman and then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty and paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka’s youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town and seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka’s frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek and the desperate hope for love–or at least a wife–that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, and even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion and spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted and the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness.

Blending profound sympathy and mischievous wit, Snow illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance and comprehension of the needs and duties

About the Author

Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red, The New Life, and The White Castle are available in Vintage paperback.