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Outstanding
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Daily Telegraph Tom Payne
The author's high artistry and fierce politics take our minds further into the age's crisis than any commentator could, and convince us of every character's intensity, making Snow a vital book in both senses of the word.
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
A detached tone and some dogmatic abstractions make for tough reading, but Ka's rediscovery of God and poetry in a desolate place makes the novel's sadness profound and moving. [19 Jul 2004, p.144]
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Outstanding
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The Independent Paul Bailey
[A] complex and ambitious novel.
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Outstanding
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The New York Times Book Review Margaret Atwood
Not only an engrossing feat of tale-spinning, but essential reading for our times.
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Outstanding
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The Spectator John de Falbe
What makes it a brilliant novel is its artistry.
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Outstanding
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New York Review Of Books Christian Caryl
Pamuk... illuminates his country's quandaries of identity, and the crisis of confidence between Islam and the West, with an imaginative depth we had not known before.
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Favorable
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Daily Telegraph David Robson
To a Western reader, the logic of events will be as foreign as the cock-fights which seem to be the main after-dark entertainment in Kars. But in the excellent, sardonic Pamuk, they have a first-rate guide to the social tensions of provincial Turkey.
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Favorable
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Village Voice John Freeman
The book's compelling side drama of a writer struggling to remain apolitical is nearly occluded in the blizzard of themes.
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Favorable
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The New York Times Richard Eder
It is a novel of lesser scope than its grand and magical predecessor and more narrowly focused, although it is enriched by the author's same mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller's playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost.
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Favorable
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San Francisco Chronicle Laurel Maury
Pamuk has written a book to make readers uncomfortable on both sides of the Bosphorus. "Snow," despite its flaws, is an excellent work.
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Favorable
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The Economist
One of his most accessible [novels].
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Thomas Meaney
A novel so tightly managed it seems at any point ready to rupture.
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Favorable
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The Guardian James Buchan
The result is large and expansive, but, even at 436 pages, neither grand nor heavy.
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Favorable
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Entertainment Weekly Gilbert Cruz
Snow abounds with political intrigue while remaining lushly tragic at heart. [17 Sep 2004]
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Favorable
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Kirkus Reviews
An astonishingly complex, disturbing view of a world we owe it to ourselves to better understand. [1 Jun 2004, p.512]
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Favorable
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Library Journal Marc Kloszewski
Ultimately is a worthwhile read for those interested in a closer look at the hot topics of religion, its devout followers, and what arises from such passions. [Jul 2004, p.73]
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Favorable
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Los Angeles Times Michael McGaha
In Maureen Freely, Pamuk seems at last to have found his ideal English translator. [15 Aug 2004, p.R4]
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Mixed
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Atlantic Monthly Christopher Hitchens
Prolix and often clumsy as it is, Pamuk's new novel should be taken as a cultural warning.
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Mixed
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Booklist Joanne Wilkinson
A nearly impenetrable political novel. [1 Jun 2004, p.1704]
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Mixed
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Washington Post Ruth Franklin
Snow has none of the tautness of My Name Is Red; its action moves thickly, at times impenetrably. Clarity is not enhanced by a tone that at times jerks wildly from knowing sophistication to faux naiveté.
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Mixed
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The New Yorker John Updike
Pamuk's conscience-ridden and carefully wrought novel, tonic in its scope, candor, and humor, does not incite us, even in our imaginations, to overthrow existing conditions in Turkey.
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