The Birds Have Also Gone
by Yashar Kemal
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There is an ancient Turkish tradition which promises a place in paradise to anyone who sets a small bird free. Three boys start up a bird-catching business to enable people to free them in order to secure their place in heaven, but the city-dwellers have become sceptical, and tragedy lies in wait for the boys.Tags
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Drie volksjongens in Istanboel vangen zangvogeltjes om ze te verkopen aan vrome moskeebezoekers. Volgens een eeuwenoude traditie heeft iedereen die een vogeltje koopt en vrijlaat, een voorspreker bij de hemelpoort. Met volle kooien staan ze op de pleinen van Istanboel en bij de moskeeën maar ze verkopen bijna niets en blijven met een enorm aantal vogels zitten. Teleurgesteld, hongerig en vernederd keren ze naar huis terug.
Het Istanboel van de auteur is een kleurrijke bruisende wereld waarin de eeuwenoude tradities plaats moeten maken voor de moderne tijd.
Het Istanboel van de auteur is een kleurrijke bruisende wereld waarin de eeuwenoude tradities plaats moeten maken voor de moderne tijd.
Dec 28, 2009Dutch
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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*
- Ook de vogels zijn verdwenen
- Original title
- Kuslar da gitti
- Alternate titles*
- Ook de vogels zijn verdwenen : roman over Istanbul
- Original publication date
- 1978 (Turks) (Turks); 1996 (Nederlands) (Nederlands)
- Important places*
- Istanbul, Turkije
- First words*
- Tugrul liep beneden de bosrand langs tot gids bij hun tent.
- Original language*
- Turks
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 894.3533 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; literatures of miscellaneous languages of south Asia Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 1850–2000
- LCC
- PL248 .Y275 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Turkic languages
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