Iron Earth, Copper Sky

Iron earth, copper sky

Yasar, Kemal

Collins and Harvill Press

The legend of the thousand bulls

Literature & Fiction

Turkeyâs greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemalâs books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas of mountain and stream and field, rise up from the pages of his books with primitive force. Memedâintroduced in Kemalâs legendary first novel, Memed, My Hawk, and a recurrent character in many of his booksâis one of the few truly mythic ï¬gures of modern fiction, a desperado and sometime defender of the oppressed who is condemned to wander in the blood-soaked gray zone between justice and the law. In They Burn the Thistles, one of the finest of Kemalâs novels, Memed is on the run. Hunted by his enemies, wounded, at witâs end, he has lost faith in himself and has retreated to ponder the vanity of human wishes. Only a chance encounter with an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful stallion, itself a hunted creature, serves to restore his determination and rouse him to action.

They burn the thistles

Collins, Harvill Press

The Lords of Akchasaz: Murder in the Ironsmiths Market

Collins

The saga of a seagull

Collins and Harvill

The undying grass

Contemporary

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.

The Undying Grass

Harpercollins

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 (Flamingo)

HarperCollins Distribution Services

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)

KEMAL, Yashar

William Morrow & Co.

For over four decades Yasar Kemal has been one of Turkey's greatest and best-known writers. His works have been translated into every major language, and he has been short-listed several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1957 Kemal became friends with the French writer Alain Bosquet, and much later the idea for a "conversation on correspondence" between the two writers developed. The "conversation", which is really a series of questions by Bosquet answered at length by Kemal, was published in Paris by Gallimard in 1990. In this work, Kemal describes his life, including the political persecution he experienced because of his leftist politics, the development of his literary art, and the influences that have played a significant role in his creations. His account of how Turkish and Kurdish oral epic traditions influenced his work is significant, for it marks Kemal as the pre-eminent figure in modern world literature who combines literary traditions of East and West, poetry and prose, and folk and classical styles. "Yasar Kemal on his Life and Art" opens the door for English-speaking readers to one of the most important and fascinating writers of contemporary world literature.

Yasar Kemal on His Life and Art (Middle East Literature in Translation)

Biographies & Memoirs

BOSQUET, Alain

Arts & Literature

Syracuse Univ Pr

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