Memed, My Hawk

Name: Memed, My Hawk
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ISBN: 9781590171394

ISBN-10: 159017139X

ISBN-13: 9781590171394

Edition: 2005

Authors: Yashar Kemal, Edouard Roditi, Yashar Kemal

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Memed, My Hawk is an epic story of the Middle East by modern Turkey's greatest novelist. Memed grows up in a remote and desperately poor mountain village that suffers under the thumb of the local landlord. Lively and adventurous, young Memed seeks to escape from a life of grueling toil. He runs away, but is quickly tracked down; brought back, he finds himself subjected to an even more backbreaking and spirit-crushing burden of work. When Memed escapes again, it is to set up as a roving brigand, celebrated in song, perhaps a liberator of his people. Or perhaps, twisted like the thistles that cover the windy slopes of the mountains, his character has taken on an irremediably harsh and brutal…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 6/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.91" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English