num_pages: 436
description: Snow ( Kar) is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. It was published in Turkish in 2002 and in English (translated by Maureen Freely) in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters. Kar is the word for Snow, but the main character also abbreviates his name to Ka (his initials) with the novel set in the eastern Turkish city of Kars. An opening (and recurring) theme concerns reasons behind a suicide epidemic among teenage girls (which actually took place in the city of Batman ).
language: English
title: Snow
titlecomplete: Snow
genres: Fiction, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 45784
places: Turkey, Kars
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix Méditerranée Étranger, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ein Buch für die Stadt, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Faber and Faber