Snowfall

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Fox One person with an open-ended conclusion we’ll likely find out more about is Wanda, who we found out recently could be the basis of possibly a spinoff series. In the series finale, Leon says Wanda is going to pursue music. Was that a way to set up for the spinoff? What was the last scene that was shot for the series? What was the sentiment around the set when it was all over? How is it believable that this actor staged (heh) a coup like this? Over a dozen people get shot and everyone is so nonchalant about it all. It seems more dreamlike than realistic. Even the love story reminded me of the difference in the expression of love in different cultures, with Ka's falling into something nearing a worshipful obsession, immersing himself whole into the object of his affection--while a westernized love story would be more geared toward seduction and conquest, less about the dance of courtship and romance. There is surrender to the heart with nothing left in reserve in non-western literature that fascinates me. Do or die. Love or leave. For this reason alone, I enjoy reading literature by a variety of international authors; each provides a view into a varied perspective and life sense. While this book is much more about telling than showing during a large part of it, readers do get glimpses of poverty, hopelessness, anger, regrets, freedom of thought, the loss of innocence, and loneliness, and the search for happiness along with the other themes mentioned above. It is researched well and reasonably well-written, but somewhat slow. However, the author does a self-insertion into the story which I did not like.

Seldom do I find a book that I feel is just about perfect, but Snowfall definitely fits the criteria. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of a girl who had nothing: no freedom, no opportunities, nothing, but still finds a way to forge a path for herself through life. The Bad: The characters were portrayed as valuing manners and courtesy, yet didn't act out their values (at least by our standards) of manners and courtesy. A more predictable outing for Banville, but despite this his prose, his characterizations and the atmosphere are all outstanding. There are secrets, hidden pasts and a continuing drama. There are limited suspects in the house and on the grounds, so who did the actual deed? An intricate police procedural follows and as predictable as I found the book, I thought the ending fitting and well done. Maybe not one of his best, but Banville for me is always worth reading.Orhan Pamuk her zaman içinde yaşadığımız toplumu anlamaya çalışmış, tek tek bizlerin meydana getirdiği, ama aynı şekilde tek tek bizi meydana getiren şeyi çözümlemeye çalışmış. Bilhassa son dönemlerinde bu meseleyi ciddi ciddi dert ettiğini düşünüyorum. Kar'ın da bu perspektiften okunması gerektiğini düşünüyorum, böyle okunursa kitap hakkını bulacaktır. While investigating this case DI Strafford, assisted by DS Ambrose Jenkins, and much later on also by Wexford Garda Sergeant Radford, they will meet with many obstructions as to the why and how of this particular murder, and not only from the people at Ballyglass House and its close surroundings, but also from the powerful Archbishop McQuaid. You poor man – what you must think of us all! We must seem like the characters in one of those novels about mad people in country houses.

For me ; it is a magnificent novel , a heart breaking one ; discussing the contemporary Turkish conflict between political Islam , tradition & even on a bigger scale .. the national identity - from a side and secularism , modernization & westernization - from the other side . this conflict was presented in the novel by Aynı şekilde doğu-batı arasındaki çatışmayı görüyoruz. Batının demokrasi elbisesini doğulu bir bedene giydirdiğimizde olan şeyleri görüyoruz. Snow never stops falling throughout this lengthy novel, and indeed becomes a barometer of the human condition. "Snow" is also the title of a poetry collection the Turkish poet, Ka, writes over its time span. A diagram of a snowflake is his diagram of his core self, with branches into imagination, reason and memory. As snow gathers over the events of the story, it becomes at times a blizzard, at other times a gentle white blanketing over a trampled earth. Ka began to read the poem aloud again, this time with growing force, but he still stopped at all the same places to ask, “Is it beautiful?” He also stopped at a few new places to say, “It really is very beautiful, isn’t it?”

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Edebiyat siyasetten önce gelir, önce edebiyatı konuşalım. Orhan Pamuk Türkiye'de söyledikleri pek ciddiye alınmayan, çok konuşulan ama hiç dinlenmeyen biri olsa da, her zaman toplumu analiz etme, tanıma, anlama işine önem vermiştir ve tüm kitaplarında da bunların izlerini görürüz. Banville writes the plot within the social context of religion in Ireland at that time. The Archbishop wants the murder covered up as an accident and makes it clear to Strafford what will happen to his career if he crosses the Archbishop. And Father Tom, the victim, has a sordid past, which was common in Ireland at the time. There is a reform school for wayward teenage boys. Father Tom had “his favorites”, boys who he counselled in private. Make no mistake, Banville wants the reader to know and remember the atrocities of the Church. He also writes of the underlying conflict of the Catholics and the protestants at the time. To me, this is a part mystery part social study of Ireland in the mid 1950’s. I hope I haven’t revealed too much of the salient points of the mystery. I already knew John Banville can write excellent prose, and I found the slower pace of this novel, so rich in atmosphere and subtext, to be appropriate and rewarding. I’m not sure if he wrote any other St. John Strafford books, but if there are, I am interested in reading them.

Yine birey-cemaat ikilemini görüyoruz ve bence Orhan Pamuk'un dile getirdiği en önemli tespitlerden biri de bununla alakalı: Türkiye'de (ve muhtemelen tüm dünyada) Allah'a inanmanın, bir sosyal sınıfa dahil olma kaygısıyla alakalı olduğunu söylüyor Pamuk. Türkiye'den Tayyip Erdoğan nasıl çıkıyor sorusunun cevabı bu tespitle ilişkili. Erdoğan'ın daha geçen gün söylediği "Dine güncelleme" meselesini de bu perspektiften yorumlamak mümkün. As for why Snow has been released under Banville’s own name, the TLS notes (rather sniffily), that “it isn’t really crime fiction; it is a beautifully written, atmospheric, literary novel that begins with a murder.” Genre writers, especially crime, romance, SF and horror, have long been held in disdain by the purveyors of literary fiction, it seems. Written in 2002, this novel predates Pamuk’s winning of the Nobel Prize in 2006. The Goodreads blurb says “Snow, which he describes as “my first and last political novel” was published in 2002. In this book set in the small city of Kars in northeastern Turkey he experimented with a new type of ‘political novel,’ telling the story of violence and tension between political Islamists, soldiers, secularists, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalists. Snow was selected as one of the best 100 books of 2004 by The New York Times.” Snow is the second-most popular book of the author (1952-) in English translation after My Name is Red. What is to follow is an intriguing and revealing Irish crime mystery, in which child abuse within the Irish Catholic Church will play a very important and sinister part, and in this environment the unsure but very willing DI Strafford must somehow find the killer of Father Tom, but in the meantime several other deaths will occur to boys/young men mainly due to shame of having been abused and this being concealed, while not getting the necessary help that they really need from the Catholic Church and Archbishop McQuaid, while also DS Jenkins will lose his life in their search for the revealing truth. It has snowed continuously for two days, and this morning everything appeared to stand in hushed amazement before the spectacle of such expanses of unbroken whiteness on all sides. People said it was unheard of, that they had never known weather like it, that it was the worst winter in living memory. But they said that every year when it snowed, and also in years when it didn’t snow.

Only for the ensemble to sit, instruments in their hand doing absolutely nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds! 4 minutes and 33 seconds of COUGHING, fidgeting and someone shouting "When are they going to start?" This time, the reader walks beside a taciturn but young inspector in a misty Irish village where a disturbing murder has taken place, a Catholic priest has appeared severely mutilated in one of the great manors of the area. The aristocratic family was there the night of the murder and they seem to be performing a part in a twisted play when the inspector starts questioning each one of them.