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the complete review - fiction

Snow Man

by
David Albahari

[an overview of the reviews and critical reactions]

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Haven't got our hands on a copy


Chances that we will review it:
Good

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  From the Reviews:

• "Snow Man might best be read as an attempt to push that logic to its breaking point, to see how far it can be taken before the navigation of the stream of consciousness being proffered isn't worth the effort. Arguably, David Albahari has the artistic merit of having refused to compromise a particular aesthetic theory no matter how unappealing the results might be. (...) In all of these ways, Snow Man is an artistic triumph, a monument to stuffy self-involvement." - Paul Keen, Books in Canada
  
  
• "Writing without paragraph breaks, and in a slow, sidewinding style that is constantly looping back on itself, Albahari manages to craft a voice here that goes beyond stream-of-consciousness into a unique style. The work is hypnotically compelling: simultaneously capable of communicating obsession, sadness, and beauty." - Ken Hunt, Quill & Quire

Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.

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Notes about the Reviews
and the Book's Reception:

       Good to see a Canadian publisher take this on, but unfortuantely it doesn't seem to have created even a ripple in the US.

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Links:

• Douglas & McIntyre publicity page
• Gallimard publicity page

• Books in Canada
• CritiquesLibres.com (French)
• Geist
• The Goalie's Anxiety
• parutions (French)
• Quill & Quire
• La route des livres (French)
• Straight.com

• Official site
• Interview

• Bait
• Checkpoint
• Götz and Meyer
• [Leeches]
• Tsing
• Words are something else

• See Index of Eastern European literature

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About the Author:

       Serbian author David Albahari was born in 1948. He currently lives in Canada.

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