From Publishers Weekly
Set in Istanbul, Turkish novelist Pamuk’s latest is an elaborate and darkly comic meditation on identity. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Library Journal
Well-known Turkish novelist Pamuk’s last effort, The White Castle, got raves from everyone but LJ (2/15/91). So why break with tradition? Often compared to Italo Calvino, Pamuk is not so stylized; this book is steeped in the scents and sights of Istanbul and is in fact very specific. But imagery and detail will not suffice to keep most readers reading, and the story of attorney Galip and his missing wife, Ruya, is allowed to drag despite an interesting intrigue that has Galip-suspicious that Ruya is hiding with her half-brother, a popular journalist-assume the identity of the half-brother with unfortunate consequences. Only the stalwart will make it to the end. Demand? The last circulation dates o (more…)
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