Orhan Pamuk's Snow is this month's book group selection. I'd already bought it before Molly picked it, but hadn't gotten around to reading it yet. The main character, Ka, is a Turkish poet who lives in Germany but has come back to Turkey to visit and is snowed into the small town of Kars. He's only there a few days, but a romance blossoms, the town experiences a military coup, trouble brews with the militant Islamists in town and more. The odd thing is that with how much happens, Pamuk's writing style is such that it was a really slow read for me. I kept putting it down and reading other books before coming back to it.
posted by kristin at 2:40 PM