6/27/2023 0 Comments Snow by orhan pamuk analysis![]() ![]() Pamuk has taken this idea of Turkey and distilled the identity crisis to a border town Kars, and further refined it to the person, the poet, known as Ka (notice the wordplay here? More on it later). It is also a book about Turkey (most of Pamuk’s books are, but of course, since he belongs to the country, or does he?) and its contradictions and how difficult or easy it is for the natives to move in time, as they are on the crossroads of East and West. If anything, I thought “My Name is Red” to be a little tedious. “Snow” is also considered one of Pamuk’s difficult novels (I don’t think so at all) to read. You as a reader, will be bursting with ideas and thoughts at the end of almost every chapter. Books such as Snow need to be read together and discussed because there is so much to talk about. Please do look her up) and second, the discussions gave way to thoughts and opinions which sometimes a solitary reading experience cannot. ![]() First, because I was co-reading it with TheBookSatchel (a very famous blogger and Instagrammer. This reread though has been a very different experience. It has been thirteen years since I read it. ![]() I remember reading “Snow” by Orhan Pamuk for the first time in 2004 I think. ![]() Genre: Literary Fiction, Translated Works ![]()
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