The Red-Haired Woman is a 2016 novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.

[1] Alex Preston, writing in The Guardian, referred to the novel as "deceptively simple".

Cem, resentful of this, starts looking for a job in order to avoid financial difficulties and to be able to attend the private teaching institution he sees as necessary for his university dreams.

Since there were no machine drilling operations at that time, he gave Mahmut Usta, one of the leading well drillers of the period, the job of searching for water in the area.

The search for water in the area where the textile factory will be built took longer than necessary, and during these working days, Cem encountered a red-haired woman and fell in love with her.