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Nieve - Orhan Pamuk, Rafael Carpinteiro
Nieve
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A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings –for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother’s funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides lead him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political... show more
A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings –for love, art, power and God. Following years of lonely political exile in Germany, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother’s funeral. Strange news of a wave of suicides lead him to Kars, a remote Turkish town where political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Pamuk creates a stark picture of a too-little known part of the world, illuminating the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. Description in Spanish: En pleno invierno, un poeta y periodista regresa a su ciudad natal, la remota ciudad de Kars en la frontera de Turquía, después de largos años de exilio político en Europa Occidental. La ciudad que encuentra es un lugar conflictivo: hay una ola de suicidios de chicas a las que se les ha prohibido llevar las cabezas cubiertas a la escuela, los islamistas van a ganar las elecciones locales, y el jefe de los servicios de inteligencia es de una eficiencia brutal. La nueva novela del premiado y prestigioso autor de Me llamo Rojo es un thriller político que retrata las más diversas formas de la ambición -el amor, el arte, el poder, la religión- y desenmascara las contradicciones que aprisionan el corazón humano en muchos lugares del mundo islámico.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9789707701595 (9707701595)
Publisher: Alfaguara
Pages no: 498
Edition language: Spanish
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
2.5 If this had been the first of his I read, I wouldn't have read any others
I'm mixed about this book. On one hand, I love the political look. On the other hand, I am so tired of books where the female characters are simply seen as symbols by the men in the story.But the politics. That was awesome.
Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it
3.0 Snow
Suffocating prose; monologues in spades; hard to understand without footnotes, which made me care less for the plot; I have a feeling English translation is not too good - at some point, accidentally, I switched from a print copy in English to an e-book in Polish and the change in the ease of readin...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it
2.0 Pamuk's Snow
In the end this book was a disappointment. As I began to read, I was intrigued, but I became less and less interested as it goes along. The book is a postmodern novel. It reads a lot like Milan Kundera and is about, love, relationships, politics, and Islam versus the West. It is somewhat dreamli...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it
3.5 Blinding Love and the Presence of Allah: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 17 January 2014 The Turkish novel Snow by the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is set in a winter of the 1990s when Ka, a middle-aged poet of small renown suffering from writer’s block, travels from his exile in Germany to the Eastern Anatoli...
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it
3.5 Blinding Love and the Presence of Allah: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Abridged version of my review posted on Edith’s Miscellany on 17 January 2014 The Turkish novel Snow by the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is set in a winter of the 1990s when Ka, a middle-aged poet of small renown suffering from writer’s block, travels from his exile in Germany to the Eastern Anatoli...
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