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Title: A very well constructed, but somewhat cold novel
Review: This is a strange story of love, the meeting of East and West, a commenton Turkish history and politics, and much else besides. Pamuk constructshis story very carefully, with great attention to how the pieces of thestory, and the stories within the story relate to each other. Yet the novelis much more - for instance the conversation between the director of thelocal school and his assassin is very compelling - Pamuk is much too cleverto dismiss fundamentalist thinking outright.This is certainly a book worth reading, but it will require some effort.I think the translation is OK, but I have a feeling that it is not superb.
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