Red-Haired Woman (eBook)

Orhan Pamuk (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33033-1 (ISBN)

Infos

** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Saturated with sympathy and sense of place, the book charts a boy's journey into manhood and Turkey's into irreversible change' Financial Times 'An ending that makes you immediately start the book all over again.' The Sunday Times 'Enchanting.' Wall Street Journal 'Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened.' A studious young man spends a summer helping a master well-digger search for water on a barren plain. As the two struggle in the summer heat, they develop a filial bond neither has known before. In the nearby town where they spend their evenings, a travelling theatre group has come to stay. The young man is fascinated by the Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of the troupe, and their brief but intense love affair drives everything else from his mind. But in his distraction, a horrible accident occurs, which will haunt him for thirty years. Until he decides to track down the Red-Haired Woman and finally understand the fallout from that unforgettable summer . . .

Orhan Pamuk is the author of many celebrated books of fiction, nonfiction, and photography. In 2003 he won the IMPAC prize for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Rezensionen

An ending that makes you immediately start the book all over again speaks for itself.

Engaging and deftly told.

Quietly beautiful.

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.

Some things never get obsolete, including good writing by masters like Pamuk.

Pared down, written with deliberate simplicity. . . . Polyphonic narratives are replaced by a powerful, engaging clarity.

He is a weaver of tales par excellence, with an unmatched sense for the ways that social change affect individual psychology and a restrained, genteel prose style that disguises the unruly passions just below the surface . . . Enchanting.

The Red-Haired Woman drapes Turkey's political situation in the language of myth, suggesting that the ancient pairs of Oedipus and Laius and Sohrab and Rostam may have company in the present.

It can fall to fiction to remind us of what has come before . . . a tale of slow-reveal secrets [and] love.

An amazingly gifted writer.

Saturated with sympathy and sense of place, the book charts a boy's journey into manhood and Turkey's into irreversible change . . . This book sings with the power of diverse remembrance.

Excellent . . . The book's final section . . . is an extraordinary piece of writing, tying the loose threads of the earlier narratives tightly together, granting us surprising new perspectives on the events of the novel.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Übersetzer: Ekin Oklap
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Damon Galgut • Elif Shafak • Hans Fallada • Hilary Mantel • Islam • Islamist • Istanbul • Maggie O’farrell • Orhan Pamuk • Revolution • Secularism • Turkey • William Boyd
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33033-9 / 0571330339
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33033-1 / 9780571330331