Red-Haired Woman (Pamuk) - Book Reviews

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[B]y the end of the book, the contemplation of fatherly themes feels heavy-handed and…melodramatic…. Pamuk’s power continues to lie not with the theatrical but with the quiet and the slow.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Reality and myth intertwine to create a twist that will send readers back to page one with hurried excitement.… [T] this novel will both appease fans…and delight first-time readers. —Joshua Finnell, Los Alamos National Lab., NM
Library Journal


(Starred review.) Pamuk masterfully contrasts East with West, tradition with modernity, the power of fables with the inevitability of realism…As usual, Pamuk handles weighty material deftly, and the result is both puzzling and beautiful.
Booklist


[A] brooding novel … [with] Pamuk's customary wealth of atmospheric detail…. It's also ham-fistedly obvious and relentlessly overdetermined.… A disappointment, though no book by this skillful and ambitious writer is without interest.
Kirkus Reviews