Snow

As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act...

ORHAN PAMUK'S magnificent and bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.

Reviews:

'A taste of Turkish Despair' David Robson. Daily Telegraph. 31/05/04
'Frozen Assets' James Buchan Guardian 29/05/04
'A Blizzard of Contradictions in Modern Turkey' Richard Eder New York Times 10/08/04
'Headscarves to Die For' Margaret Attwood New York Times 15/08/04
'More Than A Winter's Tale' Sarah Emily Miano Observer 30/05/04