What are you reading in Tibet?
Genevieve Kapuler, 58, Yoga teacher, New York City
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 1/30/2006
What are you reading?
Snow by Orhan Pamuk.
Where did you get it?
Shakespeare & Co.
What prompted you to read it?
I just found it in the store—the fact that the writer is Turkish and I'd heard of him before made me buy it.
How are you liking it?
A lot. It's difficult reading, a serious intellectual enterprise, well structured, a beautiful book, like a fugue in music.
What's the last book you read?
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata.
Are you reading anything else?
The American Poetry Review's article on Elizabeth Bishop.
What do you plan to read next?
Chinese poetry.
