The tenth novel from Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk sees a father/son bond bloom between a welldigger and his apprentice. The apprentice however is distracted by a red-haired woman causing a terrible accident, the significance of which (and the identities behind which) he will only come to understand further down the line Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize for best work of literary fiction translated into English. 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.
