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Article: When worlds collide.(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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SNOW By ORHAN PAMUK Knopf. 426pp. $26.
Two MONTHS AFTER the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk published an essay in the New York Review of Books (titled "The Anger of the Damned") in which Pamuk, who is often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize, tried to explain the violent resentment that Muslim societies feel towards the West. Muslim rage, Pamuk wrote, results from a deep sense of inferiority about the backward condition of life in Islamic countries. According to Pamuk, Islamic societies recognize that they have fallen far behind the West and that this state of affairs is, "to some considerable degree," their own ...