About this title: A burned-out Turkish writer has spent many years in Germany as a political exile, resigned to a life of dreary bleakness. Then his mother dies, and he returns home to Istanbul, where a series of inexplicable events in a nearby town provoke his curiosity. Why are young Islamic girls committing suicide? And what is the real story behind the military ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2004-08-17
ISBN-13:9780375406973ISBN:0375406972
Description: Good in yes jacket. HARDCOVER: book in good shape, dj has wear which may include tears. slight bend from storageDaily shipping, large selection! ! ! read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375706868ISBN:0375706860
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 425 p. Audience: General/trade. About half the pages are warped with water. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780375706868ISBN:0375706860
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"Snow merupakan karya Orhan Pamuk pertama yang saya baca dan langsung menyukai pengarang satu ini. Tak hanya kandungan sastranya yang menarik , pemikiran-pemikiran pamuk yang mendalam , berbobot , kritis , tak jarang nakal membuat saya lantas mengapresiasi beliau.
Pengaruh dan peran Berliani M. Nugrahani selaku penerjemah layak pula untuk diapresiasi begitu mengetahui kiprah dan sebagian prestasinya pada halaman terakhir buku dimana menginformasikan karya terjemahannya : The Kite Runner ; Karya penyuntingannya : Pertarungan Jiwa Billy dan To Kill a Mockingbird.
Sebuah gaya mengisahkan yang lazimnya tidak seperti kebanyakan - saat mendapati Orpan (penulis novel) menceritakan kisah tokoh utama sekaligus sahabat nya - sang penyair Ka.
Berawal dari isu & topik bunuh diri yang dilakukan oleh para gadis muda berjilbab sebagai reaksi atas perintah negara untuk menanggalkannya di muka umum dalam perkembangannya selaku negara sekuler , menjadikan wacana ini sebagai 'tanggapan' seru dalam masyarakat yang memiliki beberapa kepentingan dan kehendak yang berbeda.
Konflik pertama timbul saat menyandingkan landasan sikap yg saling berbeda (bahkan bertentangan) ditinjau dari kaca mata ateis , sekulerisme , nasionalis , dan fundamentalis.
Lalu hadir pula cinta , kecemburuan , revolusi yang menambah marak isi dan kompleksitas cerita.
Disuguhkan pula disana sebuah adegan pementasan teater 'gila' yang pada satu sisi cukup memukau namun tragis seakan mirip dengan pementasan yang ditemukan dalam buku ringan 'Tokaido Inn' nya Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler yang memenangkan The Silver Award Winner.
Tak jarang saya merasa perlu untuk membaca berulang beberapa kalimat & paragraf hanya demi untuk memahami serta meresapi khasanah baru saat menemukan masaknya buah pemikiran dan intisari sekelumit kehidupan yang disisipkan Pamuk.
Pendek kata , ada beberapa poin yang menarik untuk didiskusikan dalam buku ini. Terbayarlah sudah konsumsi waktu yang dibutuhkan selama 4 hari demi menuntaskannya :)"
"We're not stupid, we're just poor! And we have a right to want to insist on this distinction."
"Mankind's greatest error. . .the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. Throughout history, religious leaders and other honorable men of conscience have always warned against this shaming confusion. They remind us that the poor have hearts, minds, humanity, and wisdom just like everyone else."
"People might feel sorry for a man who's fallen on hard times, but when an entire nation is poor, the rest of the world assumes that all its people must be brainless, lazy, dirty, clumsy fools. Instead of pity, the people provoke laughter. It's all a joke: their culture, their customs, their practices. In time the rest of the world may, some of them, begin to feel ashamed for having thought this way, and when they look around and see immigrants from that poor country mopping their floors and doing all the other lowest paying jobs, naturally they worry about what might happen if these workers one day rose up against them. So, to keep things sweet, they start taking an interest in the immigrants' culture and sometimes even pretend they think of them as equals."
"When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair.'
"If the Europeans are beautiful, I want to be ugly; if they're intelligent, I prefer to be stupid; if they're modern, let me stay pure."
"When they write poems or sing songs in the West, they speak for all humanity. They're human beings--but we're just Muslims. When WE write something, it's just called ethnic poetry."
"Since it looks like I'll be traveling during the book club meeting for which I'm reading this, I'm going to give myself permission not to finish it.
I made it half way through, but I'm not enjoying it at all. The main character has no backbone, he's self-involved and seems oblivious to the events going on around him (even when there's armed conflict and torture.)
It's as if the characters are on a stage declaiming their lines. The presence of the other characters is irrelevant.
The author mentions Turgenev (possibly the only Russian author I have read) at the beginning of the book which brings back depressing associations of having to read Fathers and Sons in high school.
"Again, Pamuk is dealing with the major issues of Turkey (and, basically, half the world): East v. West, modernization/globalization, the rise of radical Islam and it's suppression and possible role in democracy. Although, this novel features Azeris, Armenians, Kurds, Islamists, suicides over wearing head scarves, charming terrorist leaders and simple terrorist soldiers, Turkish nationalists and securalists, and plenty of murder and theater in Eastern Anatolia while dealing with the above-mentioned issues, somehow it isn't that exciting. At certain points it even feels like he is pushing certain elements at very specific times in the plot, like genre fiction or a noir film (by page 75 they to kiss; by page 150 they have sex). And, of course, the girl is beautiful.
But, the most alarming aspect is that Pamuk's prose is kind of pedantic and the dialogue feels stiff at times. That's not him.
I guess this review sounds a lot worse than my rating, which is a more reasonable estimation of the work. It's actually really solid stuff. But, after reading other Pamuk I expect a lot and this isn't as good. Read "The Black Book" before this one it's a lot better."
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