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The Red-Haired Woman

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 worldBut 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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From the Nobel Prize winner & best-selling author of Snow & My Name Is Red a fable of fathers & sons & the desires that come between them On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul a master well digger & 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 & exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world But in the nearby town where they buy provisions & 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 & 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 & who the redheaded enchantress was

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