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London: Faber and Faber. PUBLISHING DETAILS: First printing of the first softback edition of this early novel from the Nobel Prize- winning Pamuk, published at the same time as the hardback version by Faber & Faber of London in 2004. 436 pages. Size; 23 x 15cms ((9" x 6"). Weight; 615g. CONDITION: I would rate the book and dustjacket as mint. The book appears unread. BOOK DESCRIPTION: The year is 1992 and Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious city of Kars near the Armenian border. 'Snow' angered Islamists and westernised Turks alike when it came out in Turkey in early 2002 - and promptly sold more than 100,000 copies. A spectacular tour de force, it evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury. Orhan Pamuk's work has been translated into more than forty languages. He is the recipient of… Read More