'Remarkable - a genuine, 100% proof discovery of great literary importance' Mail on Sunday

'Hilarious, utterly real and tragic A lithe, well-crafted gem of a novel which leaves the reader disturbed and grinning in a way that makes people sitting nearby change seats' Scotland on Sunday

'Crackling, twisted, searing, paced to a deft prose rhythm a shot of Gonzo with a rum chaser' San Francisco Chronicle

'Wild, witty, angry, cynical and sarcastic A funny book that will make your life seem boring by comparison' Scene

 January

Snow, Orhan Pamuk

Description 
From the award-winning author of 'My Name is Red' comes this political thriller. After twelve years in political exile in Germany, a poet Ka returns to Istanbul for his mother's funeral, and takes a commission to report on the municipal elections in Kars near the Russian border. There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running high between the political Islamists and the 'enlightened, pro-Western' Turkish military. The second half of the novel takes place over a three-day period. Following the set-piece military coup, Pamuk brilliantly explores such themes as politics, love, ethics, religion and poetry, as we gradually discover the real truth concerning the poet and the snow covered old-world city of Kars.

Reviews 
"Richly detailed . . . A thrilling plot ingeniously shaped . . . Vividly embodies and painstakingly explores the collision of Western values with Islamic fundamentalism . . . An astonishingly complex, disturbing view of a world we owe it to ourselves to better understand." --"Kirkus Reviews 
From the British reviews of "Snow 
"A novel of profound relevance to the present moment. The debate between the forces of secularism and those of religious fanaticism is conducted with subtle, painful insight into the human weakness that can underlie both impulses." --Bel Mooney, "The Times 
"'How much can we ever know about love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?' Such questions haunt the poet Ka . . . [in] this novel, as much about love as it is about politics." --Sarah Emily Miano, "The Observer