The Red-Haired Woman revolves around two mythical stories: Sophocles’ tale of King Oedipus, who kills his father and marries his mother, and the story of Rostam and Sohrab from Iran’s national epic The Book of Kings, in which a father kills his son. This father-son theme shapes the entire life of the protagonist, Cem. The mythical narrative style is captivating at first, though it fades toward the end of the book. My first experience with Pamuk’s writing was quite enjoyable and compelling.
The Red-Haired Woman
From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling 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 well digger and his young apprentice—a boy fleeing the confines of his middle class home—are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without luck meter by meter, they develop a filial bond neither has known before. But when the boy catches the eye of a stunning red-haired woman who seems as fascinated by him as he is by her, the events that ensue change the young man’s life forever and haunt him for the next thirty years. A tale of family and romance, of youth and old age, of tradition and modernity, The Red-Haired Woman is a beguiling mystery from one of the great storytellers of our time.
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