A review by kitkat2500
Snow by Orhan Pamuk

3.0

The story is set in a small town in Turkey, and it snows throughout the entire novel. Pamuk's writing is lovely, and it grabs you immediately. But I found myself getting bored around the halfway mark, and I really had to struggle to get to the end. The story line does pick up in the last quarter, but I found the book a little too long. The novel touches on themes of politics (secular vs Islamist ) and gender (young girls commit suicide rather than remove their headscarves). But as in real life, the novel doesn't offer simple answers; rather, it lays out the mystifying truth and invites the reader in. I was a little frustrated, as I wanted more answers than questions!