Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow was first published in Turkish in 2002 (under the Turkish title Kars) and in English in 2004. Snow’s narrator, a novelist named Orhan, attempts to reconstruct a crucial episode from the life of his late friend Ka, a Turkish poet who was murdered in exile. Much of the novel is told from Ka’s point of view as he investigates an epidemic of suicides by teenage girls in the eastern Turkish city of Kars. When Kars is cut off from the rest of the country by a heavy snowfall, a violent conflict breaks out between secularists and Islamists, and the city becomes a microcosm for Turkey as a whole.
Arabic version translated by Syrian artist and translator Abdulkader Abdelli.

Orhan Pamuk's Snow was book of the month in June 2021. You may watch the full video here