Author | Orhan Pamuk |
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Original title | Kar |
Translator | Maureen Freely |
Language | Turkish |
Publisher | İletişim |
Publication date | 2002 |
Publication place | Turkey |
Published in English | 2004, Faber and Faber |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 426 pp. |
ISBN | 0-375-70686-0 (United States ed.) |
OCLC | 61119056 |
Snow (Turkish: Kar) is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. It was originally published in Turkish in 2002, followed by an English translation by Maureen Freely that was published in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey, including a real suicide epidemic among teenage girls, which took place in the city of Batman.[1][2]