Mahmut enjoys telling stories, and one day, he asks Cem to tell a story. Cem soon comes to view Mahmut as a type of surrogate father figure. Cem and the welldigger, Master Mahmut, go to the nearby rural town of Öngören to dig a well for a wealthy businessman. To raise money for his education, Cem then takes an apprentice position with a welldigger one summer. One day, his politically-minded father disappears, and Cem believes that he may have been taken away by the government due to his political beliefs. The protagonist and narrator, Cem Çelik, is a teenager and an aspiring writer. The novel opens in the mid-1980s in Istanbul, Turkey. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Pamuk, Orhan.
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