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Written by Orhan Pamuk - Audio book performed by John Lee - Unabridged Fiction - 15 COMPACT DISCS - 18.5 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (February 2007)

“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.

About the Author: Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Istanbul.

In 2006, Orhan Pamuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy cited him as an author "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."

About the Performer: In addition to his work as a professional narrator, John Lee has acted in productions at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and The Globe Theater in San Diego. Outside of Southern California, he has been seen on the stages of all of Seattle's major theaters as well as the Tacoma Actors Guild and the New Mexico Repertory Theater. His first feature film, Breathing Hard, which he co-produced, wrote and acted in, won several awards from film festivals across the country. It was recently released across the country on DVD in independent video stores as part of the "Had To Be Made" Film Festival. Mr. Lee is also the author of the plays Blood and Milk, Hitler's Head, Passchendaele, Clean Souls and Frankincense. A British native, Mr. Lee is the recipient of ten Earphones Awards and was nominated for the industry's top award, the Audie Award for his reading of THE FIFTH SORCERESS.