Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
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Author: Orhan PamukEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-19
ISBN: 0375706860
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Worth the Effort
Summary: 5 Stars
Orhan Pamuk is not an easy or superficially gripping author, but his sad, wry stories gradually build momentum and draw the reader into their world. There is something of the German existentialist in them, like a modern Heinrich Boll or Gunther Grass with a bleak view on hope and happiness. There is also something very 'other' about the Turkish culture he portrays - insecure, questing, nervy and nationalistic in even parts. Snow is set in a cut off town on the far edges of that massive country, straddling a disjointed history torn apart by old conflicts and now stuck in an uneasy stasis. Pamuk tackles contemporary issues of secularism and fundamentalism deftly and disturbingly. As with all his novels Snow is a story of many layers: a semi-requited love story; a gripping political thriller; a nostaligic evocation of memory and loss; a story of a family under peculiar stress; a broad cultural allegory. And extraordinarily he pulls the book of on each of these. It is never easy going, but Snow is quietly seductive and richly rewards persistance.
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