Orhan Pamuk is the Nobel Prize-winning of
Snow and
My Name Is Red.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 and develop a filial bond neither has known before, the boy finds an irresistible diversion-The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre company, causing a horrible accident to befall on the well-digger and making the boy flee to Istanbul.
A beguiling mystery tale of family, romance, tradition and modernity, by one of the great storytellers of our time.
