The Red-Haired Woman (Hardcover) by Orhan Pamuk

from janerawoof

Set in Turkey over a period of 30 years or so starting around 1986. In order to make a little money, Cem, the main character, a teenager close to finishing high school, serves as an apprentice to a well-digger, Master Mahmut, in a small town near Istanbul. The Master sometimes tells old myths and...

from hemlokgang

Yet another excellent novel by Orhan Pamuk, one of my all-time favorite authors. This is a tale of fathers and sons, fatherless sons, the influence of myth & history on life choices & destiny. This is a tragic replay of a famous myth. It is a story of a well digger, a writer, an engineer, an actr...

from janerawoof

Set in Turkey over a period of 30 years or so starting around 1986. In order to make a little money, Cem, the main character, a teenager close to finishing high school, serves as an apprentice to a well-digger, Master Mahmut, in a small town near Istanbul. The Master sometimes tells old myths and...

from thewanderingjew

The Red-Haired Woman, Orhan Pamuk, author, John Lee, Katharine McEwan, narrators In Part One of the novel, Cem Celik is 16 years old. Because his father had abandoned his mother, he was forced to seek summer employment so that he could earn enough money to go to cram school before taking the exam...

from rmckeown

My first encounter with Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel-Prize winning author, came as a wonderful surprise. His novels are uniformly interesting, with well-drawn characters. The stories have the right amount of detail. The Red-Haired Woman is his twelfth novel, but there may be more not yet translated. T...