PositiveThe San Francisco ChronicleIf you want a story that plays your heartstrings like a lute, read up to page 120, then give the book to someone who deserves some serious bedevilment. Pamuk ignores that sacred rule Americans have that you protect the hero's honor. Ka plays whining mind games with fundamentalists. Ka acts like a selfish little boy toward Ipek. Ka gets innocent people killed … Snow is, quite simply, a crash course in the conflicts of the non-Arab Islamic world … Pamuk has written a book to make readers uncomfortable on both sides of the Bosphorus. Snow, despite its flaws, is an excellent work.
