Orhan Pamuk. (2017). The Red-Haired Woman: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Orhan Pamuk. 2017. The Red-Haired Woman: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Orhan Pamuk, The Red-Haired Woman: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.

Orhan Pamuk. The Red-Haired Woman: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages.
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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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   • source: The Wall Street Journal
   • content: "[Pamuk] is a weaver of tales par excellence."
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   • source: The Guardian
   • content: "A parable about present-day Turkey. . . . It blends the close observation of details with the broad brushstrokes usually associated with myth-making and fables."
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   • source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
   • content: "Beautifully written . . . a thoughtful consideration of Western and Eastern myths of fathers and sons, and the limits of free will."
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   • source: Financial Times
   • content: "Saturated with sympathy and sense of place. . . . This book sings with the power of diverse remembrance."
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   • source: The Observer
   • content: "Extraordinary. . . . The reader feel[s] as if they've emerged from the depths of a well into sudden and dazzling light."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Pamuk traces the disastrous effects of a Turkish teenager's brief encounter with a married actress, elaborating on his fiction's familiar themes: the tensions between East and West, traditional habits and modern life, the secular and the sacred."
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   • source: Counterpunch
   • content: "Story-telling at its finest. . . . There is nothing more rewarding than reading a work by a master craftsman at the top of his game, nothing else like it at all."
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     June 19, 2017
     Cem was a teenager when, in the mid-1980s, his father left him and his mother and the pharmacy that had supported their family in the Besiktas neighborhood of Istanbul. He soon takes work as an apprentice to a well digger, Master Mahut, and the two are hired to find water on a large, empty plot of land on the outskirts of the city. Master Mahut “knew himself to be among the last practitioners of an art that had existed for thousands of years. So he approached his work with humility.” Over the course of a slow, hot summer—the events of which will haunt Cem forever—that work and that humility create the tension, the boredom, and the bond between the older man and the younger one. Cem catches the eye of an older, red-headed woman in town, and the image of her consumes him. Meanwhile, building a windlass and burrowing deeper into the earth, Cem and Master Mahut swap stories. Cem previously worked in a bookstore, which fueled his reveries about one day becoming a writer and introduced him to seminal stories of fathers and sons, like those of Oedipus, Rostam and Sohrab, and Hamlet. While Cem’s consideration of these stories initially drives the novel, by the end of the book, the contemplation of fatherly themes feels heavy-handed and the story devolves into predictable, almost melodramatic myth. Pamuk’s power continues to lie not with the theatrical but with the quiet and the slow.

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     June 15, 2017
     A youthful misdeed prompts lifelong guilt in the protagonist of this brooding novel about fathers, sons, and the power of stories by Nobel laureate Pamuk (A Strangeness in My Mind, 2015, etc.).In the summer of 1986, high school student Cem Celik is working for a well digger on the outskirts of Istanbul. The work is backbreaking, but Cem forms a bond with Master Mahmut, telling us rather too many times that the well digger fills the void left by his vanished father, a left-wing militant who later turns out to be not in jail but with another woman. Fathers and sons just can't get it right in this somber tale crammed with references to the story of Oedipus and its linked opposite, the Iranian national epic Shahnameh, in which a father unknowingly kills his son. Cem becomes obsessed with the Shahnameh after he accidentally drops a heavy bucket onto Master Mahmut at the bottom of a well, panics, and leaves town without telling anyone. As the story moves through several decades in Cem's adult life, he hardly gives a thought to the red-haired actress who improbably slept with her teenage admirer after a performance at a tent theater near the well site--but that will turn out to be a fatal mistake. The novel has Pamuk's customary wealth of atmospheric detail about his beloved Istanbul and the perennial conflict in Turkish politics (and in the Turkish soul) between secular modernism and traditional values. It's also ham-fistedly obvious and relentlessly overdetermined; Pamuk seems to be trying for the stark authority of folklore and myth, but the novel's realistic trappings don't comfortably accommodate this intent. There are some bright spots: Pamuk paints a moving portrait of Cem's childless marriage, and a searing final monologue by the red-haired woman very nearly redeems the flawed narrative that precedes it. A disappointment, though no book by this skillful and ambitious writer is without interest.

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      Starred review from June 1, 2017
      

      Winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006 for his unflinching and exhaustive ruminations on Istanbul in such books as Snow and My Name Is Red, Pamuk's tenth novel is once again set in his beloved Turkey. The story follows Chem, a boy who finds both an employer and a father figure in Master Mahmut, a local well digger. As they move across the countryside, excavating the hidden waterways underneath the Turkish landscape, they also trade stories and myths about civilization. Despite his age, Chem has a sexual awakening with the mysterious redhead of the title whose hair is cut short by an ethical choice that will haunt him into adulthood. After acquiring both wealth and a fascination with tales of patricide and filicide, Chem is drawn back to the land and wells of his youth. Reality and myth intertwine to create a twist that will send readers back to page one with hurried excitement. VERDICT As much a meditation on the inescapability of fate as a classic murder mystery, this novel will both appease fans of Pamuk's bibliography and delight first-time readers. [See Prepub Alert, 2/13/17.]--Joshua Finnell, Los Alamos National Lab., NM

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from May 15, 2017
      Nobel laureate Pamuk's (A Strangeness in My Mind, 2015) latest, a contemporary parable about a well digger, his apprentice, and a mysterious stage actress draws upon ancient myths to peer deeply into the enigma of fathers and sons, even as it questions the relevance of such thinking in today's world. Young Cem stands atop the well shaft, hauling up buckets of silt and rocks, while Master Mahmut practices his craft below. With stern guidance and cryptic tales, Master Mahmut has become a father to the bookish young man. But the well in rural Ongoren is 10 stories deep and still dry, and Cem is increasingly distracted by thoughts of a red-haired woman's alluring smile. Tragedy strikes, the red-haired woman vanishes, Ongoren is swallowed up by sprawling Istanbul, and modern drilling technology replaces the dangerous old methods. Young Cem is fascinated by Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, but with age he is drawn to the tragedy of Rostan and Sohrab, a Persian inversion in which a father is fated to kill his son. Pamuk masterfully contrasts East with West, tradition with modernity, the power of fables with the inevitability of realism. Can we have our myths but be spared their consequences? As usual, Pamuk handles weighty material deftly, and the result is both puzzling and beautiful.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Literary giant Pamuk is a must-read, and this intriguing tale has special allure.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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