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The Red Haired Woman

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Informationen zum Autor Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His most recent novel! A Strangeness in My Mind! was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in Istanbul. Klappentext A beguiling mystery tale of family and romance! of east and west! tradition and modernity! by one of the great storytellers of our time. From the Nobel Prize winner! Orhan Pamuk! comes a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. Zusammenfassung 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. As they struggle in the summer heat! excavating meter by meter! the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before -not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other and exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world. 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.

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Authors Orhan Pamuk
Assisted by Ekin Oklap (Translation)
Publisher Faber & Faber
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.03.2018
 
EAN 9780571330324
ISBN 978-0-571-33032-4
No. of pages 273
Dimensions 111 mm x 178 mm x 17 mm
Series 181 POCHE
181 POCHE
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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