Snow (Signed First U.K. Edition)

Orhan Pamuk (author); Maureen Freely (translator)

ISBN 10: 057121830X / ISBN 13: 9780571218301

Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 2004

Beschreibung

First printing of the first U.K. edition, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price (£16.99) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. SIGNED by Pamuk on title page (as pictured). Signed-UK-LD. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers FLAHIVE-1549

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Snow (Signed First U.K. Edition)

Verlag: Faber & Faber, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

From the award-winning author of 'My Name is Red' comes this political thriller. After 12 years in Germany, a poet Ka returns to Istanbul for his mother's funeral. In a dangerous political atmosphere, the truth concerning the poet and the snow-covered old world city of Kars is revealed.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 into a family of eng ineers. He was educated in Istanbul at an American school. He dropped out of his architecture course to become a full-time writer and obtained a degree in journalism from Istanbul University. Since 1982, when his first novel was published to great acclaim, Pamuk has been one of Turkey's most successful authors. After three years in the USA, including a stint as visiting fellow at the University of Iowa, he returned to Istanbul, where he lives with his wife and daughter. In 1995 Pamuk was among a group of authors tried for criticising the Turkish regime's treatment of the Kurds in a book of essays exercising the freedom of speech.

He is the author of six novels. The White Castle won the 1990 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction, and the publication of The New Life caused a sensation in his native land, becoming the fastest-selling book in Turkish history. My Name is Red, publi