Memed, my hawk / Yashar Kemal ; translated from the Turkish by Edouard Roditi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaşar Kemal, 1922 or 1923-2015

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Roditi, Edouard.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

İnce Memed. 1. English

Language:

English

Turkish

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 371 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2005.

Summary:

A tale of high adventure and lyrical celebration, tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness, "Memed, My Hawk" is the defining achievement of one of the greatest and most beloved of living writers, Yashar Kemal. It is reissued here with a new introduction by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Memed, a high-spirited, kindhearted boy, grows up in a desperately poor mountain village whose inhabitants are kept in virtual slavery by the local landlord. Determined to escape from the life of toil and humiliation to which he has been born, he flees but is caught, tortured, and nearly killed. When at last he does get away, it is to set up as a roving brigand, celebrated in song, who could be a liberator to his people--unless, like the thistles that cover the mountain slopes of his native region, his character has taken an irremediably harsh and unforgiving form.

Notes:

Originally publish: London : Collins and Harvill Press, 1961

ISBN:

159017139X

OCLC:

57641496