(.) It's a novel full of orchestrated surprises and shocks, and perhaps too many overlong digressions. It finds voices for religious and other fanatics, for reactionaries and the occasional moderniser, and those who maintain that their arcane beliefs need not be challenged with reason.

' Snow is also an avowedly political work of fiction, of a kind still relatively rare in Britain.

But in its sendup of romantic poetry, political theater, and the anthropological relationship between Marxism-Leninism and anti-Western nationalism, Snow is also written by the man who got into trouble for supporting the rights of Kurds and opposing Iran's fatwa on Rushdie.' - John Leonard, Harper's

'This is playful, postmodern Pamuk, the author of The White Castle and My Name Is Red, who nods in passing at Oedipus, Robespierre, Stendhal, Mallarmé, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Conrad.

The result is large and expansive, but, even at 436 pages, neither grand nor heavy.' - James Buchan, The Guardian

'Pamuk's master here is Dostoevsky, but amid the desperate students, cafés, small shopkeepers, gunshots and inky comedy are the trickeries familiar from modern continental fiction.

Le roman à la fois oriental et postmoderne, présente tous les piéges que la conversation de son auteur élimine.' - Manuel Carcassonne, Le Figaro Orhan Pamuk le sait, qui en rirait presque, maître de ses effets.

' Neige le bien-nommé est un tour de force, un conte tragi-comique, un opéra-bouffe qui joue de toutes les voix, une boîte de Pandore.

(.) One of the achievements of “Snow” is to look beyond the tired arguments about why so many Turkish women cover their heads.' - The Economist

'It is also a tragic love story, a thriller and, more broadly, a dark journey into familiar Pamuk territory: faith, identity, betrayal and solitude.

But in the excellent, sardonic Pamuk, they have a first-rate guide to the social tensions of provincial Turkey.' - David Robson, Daily Telegraph (.) To a Western reader, the logic of events will be as foreign as the cock-fights which seem to be the main after-dark entertainment in Kars.

'Pamuk has hitherto been an acquired taste in the West but this sprawling, emotionally charged story, with its flashes of black comedy, could well secure him the readership he deserves.

Most very impressed, with a few reservations

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