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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...
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This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.
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"A major work . . . conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor . . . entirely contemporary . . . with suspense at every dimpled vortex . . . Pamuk is gifted with a light, absurdist touch . . . In Turkey . . . to write with honest complexity about such matters as head scarves and religious belief takes courage. Pamuk [is] that country's most likely candidate for the Nobel Prize."
-John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times . . . Snow is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts . . . [Pamuk] deserves to be better known in North America, and no doubt he will be."
-Margaret Atwood, "New York Times Book Review
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"Powerful . . . Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding o
Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir. Vogue
Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
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"Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir." --Vogue
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
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-John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times . . . Snow is eerily prescient, both in its analyses of fundamentalist attitudes and in the nature of the repression and rage and conspiracies and violence it depicts . . . [Pamuk] deserves to be better known in North America, and no doubt he will be."
-Margaret Atwood, "New York Times Book Review
"
"Powerful . . . Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding o
Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir. Vogue
Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times. Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
"
"Astonishingly timely . . . A deft melding of political intrigue and philosophy, romance, and noir." --Vogue
"Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times." --Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review
Part political thriller, part absurdist farce, part love story, Orhan Pamuk's second novel to appear in an Everyman edition has a contemporary setting - a remote Turkish city where Eastern and Western values overlap and collide.
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- PublisherWhole Story Audio Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1471263436
- ISBN 13 9781471263439
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages15
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