"TEST FOR EAST AND WEST
- On both sides of the Bosphorus, Orhan Pamuk’s case matters
Salman Rushdie
The work room of the writer Orhan Pamuk looks out over the Bosphorus, that fabled strip of water which, depending on how you see these things, separates or unites — or, perhaps, separates and unites — the worlds of Europe and Asia.
There could be no more appropriate setting for a novelist whose work does much the same thing. In many books, most recently the acclaimed novel Snow (Knopf, 2004) and the haunting memoir/portrait of his home town, Istanbul: Memories and the City (Knopf, 2005), Pamuk has laid claim to the title, formerly held by Yashar Kemal, of “Greatest Turkish Writer”."
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- On both sides of the Bosphorus, Orhan Pamuk’s case matters