Description
In the Yalak villages at the edge of the Taurus Mountains, three men are drawn into a dangerous triangle of politics, power, and personal obsession. Memidik, a young hunter, becomes consumed by an urge to kill the tyrannous headman Sefer—an act that grows out of long-simmering injustice and the brutal logic of survival. As the community’s seasonal rhythms and hard-won traditions collide with coercion and fear, the story explores how authority reshapes lives, loyalties, and moral choices. Woven with Yaşar Kemal’s sweeping, lyrical realism, this first volume of the Beyond the Mountain trilogy captures the enduring struggle between human will and the forces that seem impossible to outlast.
Available Editions
paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Jan 1, 1997
328 pages
ISBN: 9781860461064
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First Published
1978
Language
tur
Translation
From: tur
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