Already a fragile boy, he quickly gets attached to Mahmut, his master. Abandoned by his father, he decides to apprentice himself to a well-digger. Cem, a sixteen-year-old high school student, finds himself in the middle of a family crisis. The story, like the two novels before the Red-Haired Woman, begins in a 1980s postcoup Turkey. Adorned with notions of the uncanny, The Red-Haired Woman is fearless in its reading of canonical texts like Oedipus Rex and Rostam and Sohrab and in tackling the question of patricide and paternal filicide. That is why it is no surprise that his new book, The Red-Haired Woman, happens to be about trauma and forgetting. For over two decades, Orhan Pamuk has given us the courage to remember the distant and the recent past, in signifiers and colors invisible before.
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