The Red-Haired Woman (HB) by Orhan Pamuk

The Red-Haired Woman (HB) by Orhan PamukOn 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 without luck metre by metre, 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

I looked around upon the world

Overlooking our Valley was an immense

he plots to steal something the British hold dear and have failed for the seventh time that spring to achieve – a first summit of Mount Everest

They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now

Born on the same day and at the same time

and not particularly friendly

Vodafone Crossword Fiction Award Winner 2004 About the Book: The Hungry Tide From the author of The Glass Palace

Usui's original words

'The best book I've read this year

But we aren’t

She survives the flight

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