Dana's review
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
Dana's review
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Dana's review
rating:
recommended for: everyone
Snow won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, and while I enjoyed it quite a lot, I didn't think it was that good. The book attempts to achieve that sustained level of absurdist tragi-comedy I love so much, but never quite gets there.
The story follows a poet named Ka, a Turk who has returned to his homeland after a number of years of political exile in Germany. He travels to the city of Kars, ostensibly to do some investigative reporting on a suicide epidemic among young women (the rash of suicides being connected to identity- whether or not to wear the Moslem headscarf), but really to pursue an old classmate of his from University who, he has heard, is recently divorced from her politician husband.
Ka gets caught up in a revolution of sorts, a theater troupe literally "stages" a coup on national television as the titular snow falls deeper and heavier, cutting off the city of Kars from the outside world. The resulting turmoil showcases in microcosm ...more
The story follows a poet named Ka, a Turk who has returned to his homeland after a number of years of political exile in Germany. He travels to the city of Kars, ostensibly to do some investigative reporting on a suicide epidemic among young women (the rash of suicides being connected to identity- whether or not to wear the Moslem headscarf), but really to pursue an old classmate of his from University who, he has heard, is recently divorced from her politician husband.
Ka gets caught up in a revolution of sorts, a theater troupe literally "stages" a coup on national television as the titular snow falls deeper and heavier, cutting off the city of Kars from the outside world. The resulting turmoil showcases in microcosm ...more
