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The sequel to Memed, My Hawk - an epic tale set in the Turkish mountains by Turkey's most important twentieth-century writer This is the story of a bitter war between the poor Turkish peasants of the Taurus Mountains and the Aghas who covet their land. Ali Safa is determined to take possession of the village of Vayvay but its inhabitants will not sell. Then one villager weakens, prepared to part with his land in return for the Agha's best stallion. But this ill-fated deal sets in motion a show more chain of events which will see the young brigand Slim Memed take up the cause of the poor once again, with dramatic consequences. show lessTags
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Läst den lättlästa varianten av Johan Werkmäster från 2009 på LL-förlaget, och också i serieboksform. Fungerar utmärkt i alla former. Intressant bok om kärlek, uppoffran, maktmissbruk och personligt mod.
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Originally published in 1969 and situated in the early twentieth century, the novel feels much older than either period. The tone is anachronistically free of self-consciousness and irony; the setting, too, is untouched by the “bourgeois class” that Kemal, perennially rumored to be a Nobel Prize candidate, finds “rotten.” Peasants plow and herd, individualism is minimal—some quotes show more are attributed to entire villages—and loyalty never wavers. show less
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Kemal Sadik Gokceli was born into a Turkish-Kurdish family in Hemite, Turkey in 1922. He worked as a cotton picker, tractor driver, and threshing machine operator before he took a job at the library in Adana. Since there were few patrons, he spent his time reading world literature. He discovered Marxism and was imprisoned for several months on show more charges of spreading Communist ideas. He moved to Istanbul in 1951 where he worked at the newspaper Cumhuriyet for over ten years and adopted the pen name Yasar Kemal. As a young journalist, he played a key role in stopping the planned destruction of a historic Armenian shrine, the Holy Cross Church on Akhtamar Island in eastern Turkey. In 1962, he joined the leftish Turkish Workers Party, and he served as one of its leaders until quitting after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. His novels include the Wind from the Plain trilogy; Memed, My Hawk; and They Burn the Thistles. He received the Presidential Cultural and Artistic Grand Prize in 2008 and the Armenian Ministry of Culture gave him the Krikor Naregatsi decoration to recognize "his tribute to Armenian cultural heritage and his courage, as well as his commitment to universal values related to justice, freedom and human dignity" in 2013. He died on February 28, 2015 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- They Burn the Thistles
- Original title
- İnce Mehmed II
- Original publication date
- 1969
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.35 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Turkic languages Turkish
- LCC
- PL248 .Y275 .I513 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Turkic languages
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- Languages
- 8 — English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 32
- ASINs
- 4
