They Burn the Thistles - Softcover
A prized stallion becomes an essential element in a bitter war between poor Turkish peasants and the avaricious Aghas who covet their land
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YASHAR KEMAL (1922–2015) was born into a Kurdish family in a village in southern Anatolia and saw his father brutally murdered at the age of five. He received his basic education in village schools before working as an agricultural laborer, factory-worker, public letter-writer, and journalist. His first novel, Memed, My Hawk won the Varlik Prize for best novel of the year in 1955. Kemal's numerous other books include The Wind from the Plain trilogy, Salman the Solitary, Seagull, and three other books recounting the expoits of Memed, including, They Burn the Thistles.
BILL MCKIBBEN is a former staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include Hundred Dollar Holiday, Maybe One, The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information and Hope, Human and Wild. McKibben is a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications, including The New York Review of Books, Outside, and The New York Times. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
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- PublisherWriters & Readers
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0906495474
- ISBN 13 9780906495476
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages412
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. We offer the ISBN from rear wrap. Copyright page offers the slightly different ISBN 0906495369. No reading creases; a near fine trade paperback. The legendary Memed, champion of the landless poor of Anatolia, fugitive scourge of corrupt Aghas, is on the move again, returning from his mountain hideout to lead the villagers in their struggle. With their "unforgettable portraits of eccentrics among the Turkish peasantry," Kemal's novels "create an unforgettable picture of Turkey's feudal past and present," says Peter Ustinov. Modern Turkish Fiction in translation; 412 pp. Reduced from $18. Seller Inventory # 004482
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