{"product_id":"the-redhaired-woman","title":"The RedHaired Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany 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 mid1980s 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 Pamuks prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing. It is also a richly literary work: The RedHaired 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: Sophocless Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsis tale of Rostam and Sohrab (a story of filicide). The RedHaired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Pamuk, Orhan \/ paperback","offer_id":47846947782901,"sku":"SONG0571330304","price":30.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71aN3QrtDkL.jpg?v=1773845971","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-redhaired-woman","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}