Description
In a remote, impoverished mountain village, a spirited young boy named Memed dreams of escape from a life of humiliation enforced by a brutal landlord. After a desperate attempt to flee ends in violence and near-death, he reemerges as a roaming brigand—both feared and celebrated—his story carried through the region like a refrain of hope and vengeance. Blending lyrical storytelling with stark brutality, the novel explores how tenderness can coexist with ruthlessness, and how injustice can shape a person’s fate. With Yashar Kemal’s sweeping, poetic style and deep attention to landscape and folklore, this is a defining work about resistance, moral ambiguity, and the thin line between liberation and ruin.
Available Editions
paperback
New York Review Books
Published Jan 1, 2005
392 pages
ISBN: 9781590171394
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Details
First Published
1955
Language
eng
Translation
From: tur
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal.