Description
In a village where old passions never truly die, a young boy named Hasan is left to make sense of a violent rupture that shatters his family and rearranges the loyalties of everyone around him. When his father Halil is killed—after a deadly entanglement involving Esmé and her past—Hasan is pulled between grief, suspicion, and the competing stories adults tell to justify what happened. With the clarity of a fable and the emotional force of lived experience, the novel explores how inherited guilt, rumor, and revenge can “crush” a community’s ability to see the truth. Yaşar Kemal’s distinctive, lyrical storytelling turns a seemingly simple tragedy into a meditation on fate, justice, and the fragile line between love and destruction.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2015
108 pages
ISBN: 9781846559648
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First Published
2015
Language
tur
Translation
From: tur
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