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Readers' Opinion:
First Published:
Aug 2004, 448 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2005, 448 pages
From the book jacket: A spellbinding tale
of disparate yearnings – for love, art, power, and God –
set in a
remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism
threaten to unravel the secular order.
Comments:
'Even the symbols get affectionate treatment. Cutting off
the town, the blizzard may stand for the isolation from any
universal truth or value; one that history seemingly requires
by history while it conducts its contorted affairs. The snow,
though, is of surpassing beauty and hauntingly rendered. For
Mr. Pamuk beauty does not redeem the tragic horrors begotten
by human passions and obstinate memory. Neither do the horrors
diminish it.' -Richard Eder, The New York Times.
'A melancholy farce full of rabbit-out-of-a-hat plot twists
that, despite its locale, looks uncannily like the magic
lantern show of misfire, denial, and pratfall that appears
daily in our newspapers . . . Pamuk gives convincing proof
that the solitary artist is a better bellwether than any
televised think-tanker' - Stephen O'Shea, Independent on
Sunday (UK).
Selected Reviews:
'Even the symbols get affectionate treatment. Cutting off
the town, the blizzard may stand for the isolation from any
universal truth or value; one that history seemingly requires
by history while it conducts its contorted affairs. The snow,
though, is of surpassing beauty and hauntingly rendered. For
Mr. Pamuk beauty does not redeem the tragic horrors begotten
by human passions and obstinate memory. Neither do the horrors
diminish it.' -Richard Eder, The New York Times.
'A melancholy farce full of rabbit-out-of-a-hat plot twists
that, despite its locale, looks uncannily like the magic
lantern show of misfire, denial, and pratfall that appears
daily in our newspapers . . . Pamuk gives convincing proof
that the solitary artist is a better bellwether than any
televised think-tanker' - Stephen O'Shea, Independent on
Sunday (UK).
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