Snow Anita Frank is disconcerted to find his

is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated

To read it is to feel that little bit better about life' ELIZABETH DAY'Profoundly original and dazzlingly written

The son of a human father and an elvish mother

This is a wonderfully imaginative story of love and loyalty

At once lyrical and farcical

Snow Anita Frank is disconcerted to find hisFrom the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (a sumptuous thrillerJohn Updike; chockful of sublimity and sinNew York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearningsfor love, art, power, and Godset in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order.