The Legend of Ararat

KEMAL, Yashar

Literature & Fiction

Collins and Harvill Press

Set in the mountains of Anatolia, this story of love, pursuit and vengeance recounts the efforts of Memed, a poor orphan, to obtain justice against a tyrant, even if it means taking to banditry to achieve his ends. The author also wrote "The Wind from the Plain" and "To Crush the Serpent".

Memed, My Hawk

HarperCollins, Publishers

The first volume of a trilogy called "Beyond the Mountain", which describes the Yalak villagers, who come down from the Taurus mountains each year to pick cotton on the hot Chukurova plain.

Iron Earth, Copper Sky

Classics

Harpercollins

NY 1981 1st (American) Pantheon. Translated from the Turkish. Octavo, 250pp., cloth. Fine in Near Fine DJ, very light soiling.

SEAGULL

Pantheon

MEMED, MY HAWK

Literary

Sea-Crossed Fisherman

Contemporary

METHUEN

They Burn the Thistles (English and Turkish Edition)

William Morrow & Co.

Undying Grass

William Morrow & Co., Inc.

Overcome with despair and a foreboding of disaster, the villagers of Yalak turn to Tashbash, one of their brave men, imagining him to have miraculous powers and bringing to him an unexpected fate

Iron Earth Copper Sky (English and Turkish Edition)

Yasar, Kemal

There is an ancient Turkish tradition that promises the person who frees a small bird a place in paradise. Three boys set up a business of catching birds to enable people to free them, but city people are now sceptical and tragedy lies in wait for the boys. The author also wrote "Memed, My Hawk".

The Birds Have Also Gone

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

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