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.
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...
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...
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...
This book was a bit of a roller coaster ride for me. It starts out with the main character, Ka, an exiled Turkish poet returning to the small town of Kars to investigate the suicides of the 'scarf-girls' - girls who due to a new law are no longer allowed to wear their head scarves in school. The s...
I still can't quite figure out exactly what I loved about this book. Except for one instance, I didn't find any exceptionally deep or poignant writing in it. Who knows, maybe the translation did that. The book did, however, keep me consistently interested from start to finish with very rich descript...
It turns out, after a lifetime of genre fiction, pop science and sequential art, I'm a girl who loves a book by a Nobel literature laureate. Who knew that the whimsy and grief of the human condition would be so engaging?I spent a lot of time realising I didn't understand a quarter of what was going ...
I wanted to like this book because of the reams of good things I'd read about Pamuk's writing, and because I respect his integrity and courage as a person. How many are willing to be thrown into a Turkish jail in defense of free speech? That said, I found the novel hard going. Margaret Atwood in her...
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