They Burn the Thistles
The great Turkish writer Yashar Kemal's tales of conflict and adventure set in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey fuse ancient local traditions of oral storytelling with the social and psychological awareness of the nineteenth-century novel. Kemal's books are at once intimately involving and larger than life, heroic and humble. In the recurrent character of Memed, a peasant youth whose life of brigandage has both set him apart from his community and made him a symbol of freedom for it, Kemal has created one of the few truly mythic figures of modern fiction, reflecting a complex understanding of the human condition. What makes Memed s…
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Weitere Autoren: Mckibben, Bill / Platon, Margaret E.
- ISBN: 978-1-59017-185-1
- EAN: 9781590171851
- Produktnummer: 2396613
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
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YASHAR KEMAL (1922–2015) was born into a Kurdish family in a village in southern Anatolia and saw his father brutally murdered at the age of five. He received his basic education in village schools before working as an agricultural laborer, factory-worker, public letter-writer, and journalist. His first novel, Memed, My Hawk won the Varlik Prize for best novel of the year in 1955. Kemal's numerous other books include The Wind from the Plain trilogy, Salman the Solitary, Seagull, and three other books recounting the expoits of Memed, including, They Burn the Thistles. BILL MCKIBBEN is a former staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include Hundred Dollar Holiday, Maybe One, The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information and Hope, Human and Wild. McKibben is a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications, including The New York Review of Books, Outside, and The New York Times. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
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