The Red-Haired Woman EPUB
by Orhan Pamuk
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"Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers.
But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened."It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land.
This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through mesmerising stories and images - into Pamuk's prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing.
It is also a richly literary work: The Red-Haired Woman borrows from the tradition of the French conte philosophique and asks probing questions of ethics and of the role of art in our lives.
It is both a short, realist text investigating a murder which took place thirty years ago near Istanbul - and a fictional inquiry into the literary foundations of civilizations, comparing two fundamental myths of the West and the East respectively: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsi's tale of Rostam and Sohrab (a story of filicide). The Red-Haired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:05/09/2017
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- ISBN:9780571330331
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:05/09/2017
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- ISBN:9780571330331