by Yaşar Kemal · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495501202
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«El Halcón» is the novel by Yaşar Kemal, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
«El Halcón» follows Memed the Thin, a young peasant who flees his village, fed up with his lord's abuses, and ends up taking refuge in the mountains as a bandit. With poetic prose that gathers oral traditions of Anatolia, it portrays rural Turkey and social injustices, in a tale linked to Kurdish literature and Kurdistan.
First installment of the «İnce Memed» saga, whose Turkish original was published in 1955; this Spanish edition appeared in 2000.
A read for those interested in classic Turkish narrative and rural stories with social, cultural, and resistance undertones.
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.
