The Red-Haired Woman

Orhan Pamuk

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Penguin
02 July 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'She was looking at me as if she knew everything about me, as if she'd known me for years.'

From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author Orhan Pamuk is The Red-Haired Woman, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.

On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, the two develop a filial bond neither has known before and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world. But in the nearby town, the boy finds an irrestistable diversion- the Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a traveling theater company.

When the young man's wildest dream is realized, in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger and the boy flees, returning to Istabul. Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master's death and who the red-headed enchantress was.

The Red-Haired Woman is a beguiling mystery tale of family and romance, of east and west, tradition and modernity, by one of the great storytellers of our time.

Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.

By: Orhan Pamuk
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 188g
ISBN: 9780143792963
ISBN 10: 0143792962
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages.