奥尔罕·帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk, 1952- ），当代欧洲最杰出的小说家之一，享誉国际的土耳其文学巨擘。出生于伊斯坦布尔，曾在伊斯坦布尔科技技大学主修建筑。2006年获诺贝文学奖，作品已经被译为40多种语言出版。

“A great and almost irresistibly beguiling . . . novelist. . . . [ Snow is] enriched by . . . mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller’s playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost.”– The New York Times

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.

Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding God may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.