The red-haired woman
"An ending that makes you immediately start the book all over again speaks for itself." --The Sunday Times (London)
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, 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 young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. Les mer
But in the nearby town, where they buy provisions and take their evening break, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre company, catches his eye and seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. The young man's wildest dream will be realized, but, when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger, the boy will flee, returning to Istanbul. Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master's death and who the redheaded enchantress was.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Faber & Faber
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780571330324
- Utgave
- 1. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
Anmeldelser
"An ending that makes you immediately start the book all over again speaks for itself." --The Sunday Times (London)
"Quietly beautiful." --Fiammetta Rocco, 1843
"Pamuk's excellent 10th novel, which focuses on father-son relationships, has a fable-like feel that brings Paul Auster's work to mind. . . . [It] pores over father-son relationships with almost painful intensity . . . [and] makes the reader feel as if they've emerged from the depths of a well into sudden and dazzling light." --Alex Preston, Observer (London)
"Saturated with sympathy and sense of place, the book charts a boy's journey into manhood and Turkey's into irreversible change. But it is above all a book of ideas. Pamuk's work promotes the fact that we should always interrogate the past but never deny or bury it. History--personal, imagined, actual--reminds us to remember, to think better. . . . This book sings with the power of diverse remembrance." --Bettany Hughes, Financial Times (London)
"An intriguing modern take on the Oedipus story. . . . It's a deep, honest, poignant, painful exploration of humanity's ability to cover up its own essence with civilised ideas and behaviours." --The Herald (London)