Snow

Orhan Pamuk is a renowned Turkish writer, holder of numerous national and international awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature for «searching for the soul of his melancholic city». Indeed, the action of almost all the writer's novels takes place... in Istanbul, a city that is mysterious and beautiful, having experienced the highest flourishing and the sad twilight of decline. The action of the novel «Snow», however, unfolds in a small provincial town where a young poet arrives in search of answers to the reasons behind the deaths of several young girls who took their own lives. Here, at the edge of the earth, lives an entirely different people who adhere to strict religious rules. Cut off from the rest of the world by vast white expanses, buried under snow up to the rooftops, the town shows no signs of slumber, but on the contrary — closely watches each step of the unwelcome guest...