Snow Anita Frank prayer-sessions and family visits are

prayer-sessions and family visits are the background to more dramatic events

When she receives word of their tragic deaths

a man Sigurd has vowed to kill - he must earn riches enough to build an army

At once lyrical and farcical

is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated

Snow Anita Frank prayer-sessions and family visits areFrom 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.