"Before anything else it is simply an enthralling immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling." James Lasdun Guardin
"Pamuk has created a work concerning romatic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina."
- Ian Irvine Financial Times
"He exhibits all that near-hallucinatory gift for ambience and atmosphere that places him among the great urban novelists of any age"
- Boyd Tonkin Independent
"This haunting novel of memory desire and loss sets a ferociously high standard for the literary fiction of the new decade"
- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph
"Deeply and compellingly explores the interplay between erotic obsession and sentimentality and never once slips into the sentimental There is a master at work in this book."
- Tim Rutten Los Angeles Times
"Before anything else it is simply an enthralling immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling." James Lasdun Guardin
"Pamuk has created a work concerning romatic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina."
- Ian Irvine Financial Times
"He exhibits all that near-hallucinatory gift for ambience and atmosphere that places him among the great urban novelists of any age"
- Boyd Tonkin Independent
"This haunting novel of memory desire and loss sets a ferociously high standard for the literary fiction of the new decade"
- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph
"Deeply and compellingly explores the interplay between erotic obsession and sentimentality and never once slips into the sentimental There is a master at work in this book."
- Tim Rutten Los Angeles Times
