{"product_id":"red-haired-woman-tpb-w2","title":"Orhan Pamuk: The Red-Haired Woman [2017] paperback","description":"\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Red-Haired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.","brand":"Pamuk, Orhan","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49750502736211,"sku":"XV80571330300","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44314477723938,"sku":"9780571330300","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/pamuk-orhan-orhan-pamuk-the-red-haired-woman-2017-paperback-59906421686611.jpg?v=1730876711","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/red-haired-woman-tpb-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}