The political novel makes a triumphant return…As if Nabokov and Rushdie had
Known in North America, and no doubt he will be.” - Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review Rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts… deserves to be better At one point i could literally taste 'snow' on my tongue!"Įngrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times…Snow is eerily prescient, both in itsĪnalyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and The way Orhan has beautifully scripted his novel, with intricate descriptions-made it a very sensuous type of reading. "Whether one is an atheist or a die-hard Islamist, the emotion called love over rules us all.
Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment. And finding God may be the prelude to losing everything else. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.
His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller’s playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost.”– The New York Times An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. “A great and almost irresistibly beguiling.
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