Yaşar Kemal 1922-

Memed, my hawk by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
186 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 22 languages and held by 1,030 libraries worldwide
Young Memed, a peasant turned brigand, fights to save his sweetheart from a forced marriage and to free his Turkish village from tyranny.

They burn the thistles by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
55 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in 11 languages and held by 572 libraries worldwide
Turkey's greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal's books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas of mountain and stream and field, rise up from the pages of his books with primitive force. Memed -- introduced in Kemal's legendary first novel, Memed, My Hawk, and a recurrent character in many of his books -- is one of the few truly mythic <U+FB01>gures of modern fiction, a desperado and sometime defender of the oppressed who is condemned to wander in the blood-soaked gray zone between justice and the law. In They Burn the Thistles, one of the finest of Kemal's novels, Memed is on the run. Hunted by his enemies, wounded, at wit's end, he has lost faith in himself and has retreated to ponder the vanity of human wishes. Only a chance encounter with an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful stallion, itself a hunted creature, serves to restore his determination and rouse him to action.

The sea-crossed fisherman : a novel by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
45 editions published between 1978 and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 560 libraries worldwide

Iron earth, copper sky by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
67 editions published between 1963 and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 541 libraries worldwide
IJzeren aarde, bronzen hemel. - Door een gemene zet van het dorpshoofd zijn de dorpelingen, die als katoenplukker werkzaam zijn, niet in staat hun schulden te betalen.

The undying grass by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
37 editions published between 1968 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 534 libraries worldwide

Seagull by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
37 editions published between 1976 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 489 libraries worldwide

Anatolian tales by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
10 editions published between 1968 and 1983 in English and held by 397 libraries worldwide

The wind from the plain by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
53 editions published between 1960 and 2008 in 8 languages and held by 394 libraries worldwide
Bredt anlagt tyrkisk roman om et landsbysamfund på den årlige vandring ned til sletten for at plukke bomuld.

Murder in the Ironsmiths Market by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
47 editions published between 1900 and 2007 in 7 languages and held by 373 libraries worldwide

Salman the Solitary by Yaşar Kemal ( Book )
26 editions published between 1980 and 2004 in 5 languages and held by 312 libraries worldwide
A tale of family vengeance in Turkey which begins when a man rescues a baby boy and raises him as his only son. Subsequently his wife gives birth to a boy of their own, his affection shifts and the adopted one revenges himself on father and son.