by Yasar Kemal · UNESCO Ediciones Grupo Zeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440689146
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«El Halcón» is the novel by Yasar Kemal, published by UNESCO Ediciones Grupo Zeta in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
El Halcón tells the story of Memed the Thin, a boy who flees the village where he is exploited and humiliated by the chieftain Abdi Alí Aga and takes refuge in the mountains. Turned bandit, Memed protects the oppressed peasants and becomes the Halcón, a legendary figure embodying rebellion and the search for justice.
First instalment of the «İnce Memed» series; published in 1998 and translated from Turkish by Rafael Carpintero Ortega.
Will appeal to readers of Turkish literary classics and stories of rebellion and popular justice.
Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
