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Item Details
Title:
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THE RED-HAIRED WOMAN
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By: |
Orhan Pamuk |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571330304 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571330300 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
3 August, 2017 |
Edition: |
Export - Airside ed |
Pages: |
272 |
Description: |
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 stories and images - into themes such as: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing. |
Synopsis: |
"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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UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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