Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Snow: Introduction by Margaret Atwood, (Hardcover)

from idyll

This is an important book. For one thing, the author may well be assassinated, in part for having written it. Turkey is in a fascinating place in today's world: the border between the West and Islam and Pamuk lays out the issues with painful clarity. At times, the book feels downright Dostoyevski...

from klarusu

On the surface this is a book about a poet, Ka, who returns to Turkey after twelve years of political exile and, on the recommendation of a friend, visits Kars. This town has recently experienced a rash of suicides among young women and is involved in a verbal conflict and public debate about the...

from gregorymose

A slow, peculiar, and oddly emotional book. Following a Turkish poet as he visits a regional town in eastern Anatolia nominally to do a newspaper article about girls committing suicide, the book takes the reader on a journey through Turkish secular politics, Islamist discontent and the emotional ...

from kambrogi

This much-praised work by the Turkish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is a dense, challenging work, less for its language than for its meaning. It tells the story of the fictional Turkish poet Ka who, after being exiled for twelve years in Germany, returns to his country for his mother's...

from bibliobibuli

I had to to force myself through every page. It isn't so much the plot that got to me. I'm fascinated to read about Turkey, and about the clash of extremism and secularism. I liked the way different characters are allowed to give their viewpoints. I like the slightly surreal setting - the impover...