TEHRAN – A Persian version of Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red Haired Woman” has recently been published by Hoonaar Publications in Tehran.

Translated by Roya Purmanaf, the book is the story of a well-digger and his apprentice who are looking for water in the barren lands around Istanbul in mid-1980s.

In the inner layer, the story compares two fundamental myths of the West and the East respectively: Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsi’s tale of Rustam and Sohrab (a story of filicide).

Published in February 2016, “The Red Haired Woman” is Pamuk’s tenth novel.

Photo: The cover of the Persian version of Orhan Pamuk’s “The Red Haired Woman”  

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