Snow

paperback, 440 pages

English language

Published March 31, 2005 by Gardners Books, Brand: Faber and Faber.

ISBN:
978-0-571-21831-8
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4 stars (24 reviews)

Kitap, 2002 yılında ilk olarak İletişim Yayınları tarafından yayımlanmıştır. Kitabın yayıncılığını 2013 yılından itibariyle YKY (Yapı Kredi Yayınları) üstlenmiştir.

Kitap 2005 yılında Nobel Ödüllü yazar Orhan Pamuk’a “Prix Médicis Etranger” ve 2006’da ise “Le Prix Méditerranée étranger” Ödülü’nü kazandırmıştır.

Kitapta geçen hikayede Ka adında bir şair ve köşe yazarının Kars ilinde gerçekleşen kadın intiharlarını çalıştığı gazetedeki köşesinde yazmak amacıyla soğuk bir kış ayında Kars iline araştıma yapmaya gitmesiyle başlamaktadır.

Orhan Pamuk, kitapta bir çok toplumsal konuya değinmiştir. Orhan Pamuk’un toplumsal gerçekçiliği mistisizmle harmanlayarak ortaya koyduğu bu eser, Türkiye’nin postmodern edebiyat örneklerinden biri olarak değerlendirilmektedir.

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Review of 'Snow' on 'Import'

5 stars

Outstanding work by an author who can't put a foot wrong. Beautifully constructed, the novel meanders through ideas on ownership, gender, and the oversimplification of the east/west divide magnificently. A deep-thinking novel cleverly executed in the vein of Kafka.

Review of 'Snow' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

The overall idea behind "Snow" is intriguing - vaguely reminiscent of Jose Saramago's Blindness (which I loved) but with the addition of contemporary Eastern cultural aspects to keep Pamuk's story moving. The writer's style is repetitive, not a personal favorite but I can see how others might like the cadence-like quality it brings. In short, I did enjoy reading this book but I'm realizing that a trimmed-down Ernest Hemingway to-the-point prose is my preference. This book just seemed to take way too long to make its point.

Review of 'Snow' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

"Snow" by Orhan Pamuk is some of the finest writing of the past decade. Pamuk, the Nobel Prize Winning author of "My Name is Red," "The Black Book," and "The Museum of Innocence" presents here a portrait of modern Turkey in all its complexities and contrad...ictions. The story concerns Ka, an middle aged exiled poet living in Germany who travels to Kars, a remote Turkish city with the dual purpose of reporting on a string of suicides of "head-scarf" girls and to reconnect with a woman from his past. The book's frame narrative is fascinating and typical Pamuk - the narrator (implied to be the author himself) plays with his readers, giving hints and clues to what will happen in fifty or sixty pages and putting a narrative together that keeps the ready wanting to move forward to its startling conclusion. While in Kars, Ka comes face to face with …

Review of 'Snow' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Well, I had high hopes for this book when it was given to me. After all, Orhan Pamuk, the author, won a Pulitzer and has been all over the news lately. He must be a good writer, right?

Turns out he is a good writer but this book was not for me. I tried really hard to like it and to care and to want to know what happened to everyone and why it happened (which was what he was interested in), but couldn't. Mostly this is because snow is a very slow moving book.

It takes place in a small city on the Eastern border of Turkey during a snow storm when all the roads in and out of the city are closed. The protagonist is a poet who has been living in self-exile in Germany and he's come back as a reporter to cover a story about suicides …

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