The Red-Haired Woman

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The Red-Haired Woman is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that intertwines a coming-of-age story with myth, patricide, and the tensions between tradition and modernity in contemporary Turkey.

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instanceOf novel
author Orhan Pamuk
authorAwardedYear 2006
centralConflict conflict between fathers and sons
conflict between individual desire and social norms
comparesMyths Eastern Rostam and Sohrab tradition
Western Oedipus tradition
countryOfOrigin Turkey
explores guilt and responsibility
modernization of Turkey
power of stories to shape lives
relationship between East and West
genre coming-of-age novel
literary fiction
metafiction
psychological novel
hasAuthorAward Nobel Prize in Literature
hasCharacter Cem
Master Mahmut
the red-haired woman
hasMotif absent father
intertwining of personal and national history
secret parentage
incorporatesMyth Oedipus
surface form: Oedipus myth

Shahnameh
surface form: Shahnameh story of Rostam and Sohrab
literaryMotive theatre troupe
well-digging
literaryStyle intertextual
myth-infused realism
symbolic
mainTheme class and social change in Turkey
fate and free will
father-son relationships
patricide
storytelling and myth
tension between tradition and modernity
narrativePerspective first-person narrative
originalLanguage Turkish
placeInAuthorOeuvre late-career novel of Orhan Pamuk
publisherOfEnglishEdition Faber and Faber
surface form: Faber & Faber
setIn Istanbul
Turkey
setInPeriod late 20th century
structure three-part structure
translatedInto English
multiple languages

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Orhan Pamuk notableWork The Red-Haired Woman