The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk [HARDCOVER][BOOKSHELF WEAR]

Format: Hardcover

Condition: New with minor bookshelf wear (dent)

Genre: Asian Literature

Literary Awards: EBRD Literature Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018)

"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.

#sayajualbuku #bukumurah #secondhandbook #bukuonline #bookshop #booksale #englishnovel #book #bargainbook #kedaibuku #prelovedbook #pasarnovel #sayajualbukupreloved #sayajualbukuonline #kedaibukuonline #ulatbuku #kedaibukumalaysia #sayajual #bookstagrammy #bibliophilemy