Snow

Pocketbok. Vintage U.S. . First uppl. 2004. 463 sidor.

Gott skick. An exiled poet named K a 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 ter-rorist. 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. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral sus-pense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.
"A major work . .. conscience-ridden and carefully wrought, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor . . . with suspense at every dimpled vortex.
Pamuk [is Turkey's] most likely candidate for the Nobel Prize."
-John Updike, The New Yorker