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, & 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 & desperate act.. . Orhan Pamuk`s magnificent & bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, & its fury.