by Yasar Kemal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293200029
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«Memed, mein Falke» is the novel by Turkish writer Yaşar Kemal, published by Unionsverlag in paperback (337 pages, in German).
In the remote villages of the Taurus Mountains in Anatolia, the landowner Abdi Aga oppresses the peasants. Young Memed, pursued by the master, flees to the mountains and becomes a bandit and rebel; his fight for justice turns him into a legendary figure. The work, translated into more than thirty languages, brought international fame to Yaşar Kemal.
First instalment of the «İnce Memed» series (the novel's original title), translated into German by Horst Wilfrid Brands.
For readers of classic fiction and Turkish literature, especially stories of rebellion and social justice in rural Anatolia.
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.
