This story is told on behalf of a young man, Jem Steel. It begins in 1986, when his father disappears due to problems with the police. A teenager, a novice writer who is preparing for the entrance exam to the university, gets a summer job as a student of a master of wells. Master Magmut, whom Jem treats as his father, tells him not only about the intricacies of digging a well, but also gives life lessons. While working in a nearby town, the boy's attention is drawn to a red-haired woman who performs in the troupe of a wandering theater. And it all starts & hellip; As always in the novels of Orhan Pamuk, there are many references to history, ancient literature, mythology. The confrontation between the West and the East was also necessary. It is safe to say that The Red Woman is a parable novel, a novel in a novel where theater and reality, legend and myth, metaphor and reality, East and West, father and son, religion and atheism, religion and atheism are closely intertwined. death.