Snow - Orhan Pamuk

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense-amasterful novel of"political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner.

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn
city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious
girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories
of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.

Amid blanketing snowfall and universal
suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek's ex-husband to
a charismatic terrorist.
A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical
evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything
else.