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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10159017139X
ISBN-139781590171394
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038529087
Product Key Features
Book TitleMemed, My Hawk
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, General, Literary, Action & Adventure
Publication Year2005
GenreFiction
AuthorYashar Kemal
Book SeriesMemed Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-003745
Reviews"Some books are so famous they need no introduction. But have you ever read Yashar Kemal? His first novel, Memed, My Hawk (NYRB Classics), set in the south-east of Turkey and about a young man at war with feudal authority, was published in the 1950s and brought him international fame. It is still greatly loved in Turkey, and with good reason." --The Guardian "Yashar Kemal is one of those writers who is content with the patch of earth allotted by birth. As in the case of Faulkner, Akhmatova, or even Joyce, all the events described circle around the site of an early injury. These writers evoke landscapes containing people who, however lost they may be in their marginal existences, fix their gaze upon the center of the world and take up residence there. [Kemal is driven to] write against the age and to tell those stories that have not been elevated to the status of affairs of state because they deal with people who never sat on high, who did not dominate but rather were themselves dominated."-Günter Grass "Yashar Kemal is a thousand kilometres tall and can make a story of two stones tender and spellbinding. A master."-John Berger "A beautiful and passionate book . . . in the tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." -Glasgow Herald "A tale that assumes epic proportions and gathers speed to rush to a spectacular climax." --Daily Telegraph "A beautiful novel in the old, glorious tradition of heroic storytelling." -Scotsman "Follows in that tradition of strong, simple novels about the life of the peasantry. It has that insider's feeling for man, the oppressed, labouring animal . . . you might find in Tolstoy, Hardy or Silone. The author never loses his freshness, an ability to pick on details as though seen for the first time." -Guardian "Yashar Kemal achieves the Russian quality - an intimacy of detail which makes his etching indelible, more selected, and therefore more obvious than life . . . The book is a small, sharp, moving epic of the Turkish soil." -Sunday Telegraph "A masterpiece." -Robert Carver,New Statesman "A remarkable novel, reminiscent of Hardy in its power and scope." -Queen "The sense of heroism, the animal tenderness, the marvelous feeling for the land, and the intuitive narrative rythm give the book raw vitality and pure immediacy." --Saturday Review "Exciting, rushing, lyrical, a complete and subtle emotional experience." --The Chicago Sun-Times "A folk hero worthy to rank with Robin Hood." --The New York Times "Here again is that directness and that fierce poetry which one knew in the old heroic stories, and a hero in whom one can have such faith and trust that one can bear to read his torments knowing that he is strong enough to endure them. It is a beautiful and passionate book. It has been ably translated, and it is well in the Harvill tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." ---Glasgow Herald, "Some books are so famous they need no introduction. But have you ever read Yashar Kemal? His first novel, Memed, My Hawk (NYRB Classics), set in the south-east of Turkey and about a young man at war with feudal authority, was published in the 1950s and brought him international fame. It is still greatly loved in Turkey, and with good reason." -- The Guardian "Yashar Kemal is one of those writers who is content with the patch of earth allotted by birth. As in the case of Faulkner, Akhmatova, or even Joyce, all the events described circle around the site of an early injury. These writers evoke landscapes containing people who, however lost they may be in their marginal existences, fix their gaze upon the center of the world and take up residence there. [Kemal is driven to] write against the age and to tell those stories that have not been elevated to the status of affairs of state because they deal with people who never sat on high, who did not dominate but rather were themselves dominated."-Gnter Grass "Yashar Kemal is a thousand kilometres tall and can make a story of two stones tender and spellbinding. A master."-John Berger "A beautiful and passionate book . . . in the tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." -Glasgow Herald "A tale that assumes epic proportions and gathers speed to rush to a spectacular climax." -- Daily Telegraph "A beautiful novel in the old, glorious tradition of heroic storytelling." - Scotsman "Follows in that tradition of strong, simple novels about the life of the peasantry. It has that insider's feeling for man, the oppressed, labouring animal . . . you might find in Tolstoy, Hardy or Silone. The author never loses his freshness, an ability to pick on details as though seen for the first time." - Guardian "Yashar Kemal achieves the Russian quality - an intimacy of detail which makes his etching indelible, more selected, and therefore more obvious than life . . . The book is a small, sharp, moving epic of the Turkish soil." - Sunday Telegraph "A masterpiece." -Robert Carver, New Statesman "A remarkable novel, reminiscent of Hardy in its power and scope." - Queen "The sense of heroism, the animal tenderness, the marvelous feeling for the land, and the intuitive narrative rythm give the book raw vitality and pure immediacy." -- Saturday Review "Exciting, rushing, lyrical, a complete and subtle emotional experience." -- The Chicago Sun-Times "A folk hero worthy to rank with Robin Hood." -- The New York Times "Here again is that directness and that fierce poetry which one knew in the old heroic stories, and a hero in whom one can have such faith and trust that one can bear to read his torments knowing that he is strong enough to endure them. It is a beautiful and passionate book. It has been ably translated, and it is well in the Harvill tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." --- Glasgow Herald, "Some books are so famous they need no introduction. But have you ever read Yashar Kemal? His first novel, Memed, My Hawk (NYRB Classics), set in the south-east of Turkey and about a young man at war with feudal authority, was published in the 1950s and brought him international fame. It is still greatly loved in Turkey, and with good reason." -- The Guardian "Yashar Kemal is one of those writers who is content with the patch of earth allotted by birth. As in the case of Faulkner, Akhmatova, or even Joyce, all the events described circle around the site of an early injury. These writers evoke landscapes containing people who, however lost they may be in their marginal existences, fix their gaze upon the center of the world and take up residence there. [Kemal is driven to] write against the age and to tell those stories that have not been elevated to the status of affairs of state because they deal with people who never sat on high, who did not dominate but rather were themselves dominated."Gunter Grass "Yashar Kemal is a thousand kilometres tall and can make a story of two stones tender and spellbinding. A master."John Berger "A beautiful and passionate book . . . in the tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." Glasgow Herald "A tale that assumes epic proportions and gathers speed to rush to a spectacular climax." -- Daily Telegraph "A beautiful novel in the old, glorious tradition of heroic storytelling." Scotsman "Follows in that tradition of strong, simple novels about the life of the peasantry. It has that insider's feeling for man, the oppressed, labouring animal . . . you might find in Tolstoy, Hardy or Silone. The author never loses his freshness, an ability to pick on details as though seen for the first time." Guardian "Yashar Kemal achieves the Russian quality an intimacy of detail which makes his etching indelible, more selected, and therefore more obvious than life . . . The book is a small, sharp, moving epic of the Turkish soil." Sunday Telegraph "A masterpiece." Robert Carver, New Statesman "A remarkable novel, reminiscent of Hardy in its power and scope." Queen "The sense of heroism, the animal tenderness, the marvelous feeling for the land, and the intuitive narrative rythm give the book raw vitality and pure immediacy." -- Saturday Review "Exciting, rushing, lyrical, a complete and subtle emotional experience." -- The Chicago Sun-Times "A folk hero worthy to rank with Robin Hood." -- The New York Times "Here again is that directness and that fierce poetry which one knew in the old heroic stories, and a hero in whom one can have such faith and trust that one can bear to read his torments knowing that he is strong enough to endure them. It is a beautiful and passionate book. It has been ably translated, and it is well in the Harvill tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." --- Glasgow Herald, "Some books are so famous they need no introduction. But have you ever read Yashar Kemal? His first novel, Memed, My Hawk (NYRB Classics), set in the south-east of Turkey and about a young man at war with feudal authority, was published in the 1950s and brought him international fame. It is still greatly loved in Turkey, and with good reason." -- The Guardian "Yashar Kemal is one of those writers who is content with the patch of earth allotted by birth. As in the case of Faulkner, Akhmatova, or even Joyce, all the events described circle around the site of an early injury. These writers evoke landscapes containing people who, however lost they may be in their marginal existences, fix their gaze upon the center of the world and take up residence there. [Kemal is driven to] write against the age and to tell those stories that have not been elevated to the status of affairs of state because they deal with people who never sat on high, who did not dominate but rather were themselves dominated."-Günter Grass "Yashar Kemal is a thousand kilometres tall and can make a story of two stones tender and spellbinding. A master."-John Berger "A beautiful and passionate book . . . in the tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." -Glasgow Herald "A tale that assumes epic proportions and gathers speed to rush to a spectacular climax." -- Daily Telegraph "A beautiful novel in the old, glorious tradition of heroic storytelling." - Scotsman "Follows in that tradition of strong, simple novels about the life of the peasantry. It has that insider's feeling for man, the oppressed, labouring animal . . . you might find in Tolstoy, Hardy or Silone. The author never loses his freshness, an ability to pick on details as though seen for the first time." - Guardian "Yashar Kemal achieves the Russian quality - an intimacy of detail which makes his etching indelible, more selected, and therefore more obvious than life . . . The book is a small, sharp, moving epic of the Turkish soil." - Sunday Telegraph "A masterpiece." -Robert Carver, New Statesman "A remarkable novel, reminiscent of Hardy in its power and scope." - Queen "The sense of heroism, the animal tenderness, the marvelous feeling for the land, and the intuitive narrative rythm give the book raw vitality and pure immediacy." -- Saturday Review "Exciting, rushing, lyrical, a complete and subtle emotional experience." -- The Chicago Sun-Times "A folk hero worthy to rank with Robin Hood." -- The New York Times "Here again is that directness and that fierce poetry which one knew in the old heroic stories, and a hero in whom one can have such faith and trust that one can bear to read his torments knowing that he is strong enough to endure them. It is a beautiful and passionate book. It has been ably translated, and it is well in the Harvill tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." --- Glasgow Herald, "Yashar Kemal is one of those writers who is content with the patch of earth allotted by birth. As in the case of Faulkner, Akhmatova, or even Joyce, all the events described circle around the site of an early injury. These writers evoke landscapes containing people who, however lost they may be in their marginal existences, fix their gaze upon the center of the world and take up residence there. [Kemal is driven to] write against the age and to tell those stories that have not been elevated to the status of affairs of state because they deal with people who never sat on high, who did not dominate but rather were themselves dominated."-Günter Grass "Yashar Kemal is a thousand kilometres tall and can make a story of two stones tender and spellbinding. A master."-John Berger "A beautiful and passionate book . . . in the tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." -Glasgow Herald "A tale that assumes epic proportions and gathers speed to rush to a spectacular climax." -- Daily Telegraph "A beautiful novel in the old, glorious tradition of heroic storytelling." -Scotsman "Follows in that tradition of strong, simple novels about the life of the peasantry. It has that insider's feeling for man, the oppressed, labouring animal . . . you might find in Tolstoy, Hardy or Silone. The author never loses his freshness, an ability to pick on details as though seen for the first time." -Guardian "Yashar Kemal achieves the Russian quality - an intimacy of detail which makes his etching indelible, more selected, and therefore more obvious than life . . . The book is a small, sharp, moving epic of the Turkish soil." -Sunday Telegraph "A masterpiece." -Robert Carver, New Statesman "A remarkable novel, reminiscent of Hardy in its power and scope." -Queen "The sense of heroism, the animal tenderness, the marvelous feeling for the land, and the intuitive narrative rythm give the book raw vitality and pure immediacy." -- Saturday Review "Exciting, rushing, lyrical, a complete and subtle emotional experience." -- The Chicago Sun-Times "A folk hero worthy to rank with Robin Hood." -- The New York Times "Here again is that directness and that fierce poetry which one knew in the old heroic stories, and a hero in whom one can have such faith and trust that one can bear to read his torments knowing that he is strong enough to endure them. It is a beautiful and passionate book. It has been ably translated, and it is well in the Harvill tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." --- Glasgow Herald, "Yashar Kemal is one of those writers who is content with the patch of earth allotted by birth. As in the case of Faulkner, Akhmatova, or even Joyce, all the events described circle around the site of an early injury. These writers evoke landscapes containing people who, however lost they may be in their marginal existences, fix their gaze upon the center of the world and take up residence there. ÝKemal is driven to¨ write against the age and to tell those stories that have not been elevated to the status of affairs of state because they deal with people who never sat on high, who did not dominate but rather were themselves dominated."--Gunter Grass "Yashar Kemal is a thousand kilometres tall and can make a story of two stones tender and spellbinding. A master."--John Berger "A beautiful and passionate book . . . in the tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." --Glasgow Herald "A tale that assumes epic proportions and gathers speed to rush to a spectacular climax." -- "Daily Telegraph ""A beautiful novel in the old, glorious tradition of heroic storytelling." --"Scotsman ""Follows in that tradition of strong, simple novels about the life of the peasantry. It has that insider's feeling for man, the oppressed, labouring animal . . . you might find in Tolstoy, Hardy or Silone. The author never loses his freshness, an ability to pick on details as though seen for the first time." --"Guardian ""Yashar Kemal achieves the Russian quality -- an intimacy of detail which makes his etching indelible, more selected, and therefore more obvious than life . . . The book is a small, sharp, moving epic of the Turkish soil." --"Sunday Telegraph ""A masterpiece."--Robert Carver, "New Statesman ""A remarkable novel, reminiscent of Hardy in its power and scope." --"Queen ""The sense of heroism, the animal tenderness, the marvelous feeling for the land, and the intuitive narrative rythm give the book raw vitality and pure immediacy." -- "Saturday Review" "Exciting, rushing, lyrical, a complete and subtle emotional experience." -- "The Chicago Sun-Times" "A folk hero worthy to rank with Robin Hood." --" The New York Times ""Here again is that directness and that fierce poetry which one knew in the old heroic stories, and a hero in whom one can have such faith and trust that one can bear to read his torments knowing that he is strong enough to endure them. It is a beautiful and passionate book. It has been ably translated, and it is well in the Harvill tradition which gave us Dr Zhivago and The Leopard." --- "Glasgow Herald"
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal894.3533
SynopsisA tale of high adventure and lyrical celebration, tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness, Memed, My Hawk is the defining achievement of one of the greatest and most beloved of living writers, Yashar Kemal. It is reissued here with a new introduction by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Memed, a high-spirited, kindhearted boy, grows up in a desperately poor mountain village whose inhabitants are kept in virtual slavery by the local landlord. Determined to escape from the life of toil and humiliation to which he has been born, he flees but is caught, tortured, and nearly killed. When at last he does get away, it is to set up as a roving brigand, celebrated in song, who could be a liberator to his people--unless, like the thistles that cover the mountain slopes of his native region, his character has taken an irremediably harsh and unforgiving form., A tale of high adventure and lyrical celebration, tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness, Memed, My Hawk is the defining achievement of one of the greatest and most beloved of living writers, Yashar Kemal. It is reissued here with a new introduction by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Memed, a high-spirited, kindhearted boy, grows up in a desperately poor mountain village whose inhabitants are kept in virtual slavery by the local landlord. Determined to escape from the life of toil and humiliation to which he has been born, he flees but is caught, tortured, and nearly killed. When at last he does get away, it is to set up as a roving brigand, celebrated in song, who could be a liberator to his peopleunless, like the thistles that cover the mountain slopes of his native region, his character has taken an irremediably harsh and unforgiving form., Memed, My Hawk is an epic story of the Middle East by modern Turkey's greatest novelist. Memed grows up in a remote and desperately poor mountain village that suffers under the thumb of the local landlord. Lively and adventurous, young Memed seeks to escape from a life of grueling toil. He runs away, but is quickly tracked down; brought back, he finds himself subjected to an even more backbreaking and spirit-crushing burden of work. When Memed escapes again, it is to set up as a roving brigand, celebrated in song, perhaps a liberator of his people. Or perhaps, twisted like the thistles that cover the windy slopes of the mountains, his character has taken on an irremediably harsh and brutal form. Tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness explode unpredictably in this tale of high adventure. In Memed, My Hawk, the most intimate allegiances draw them a dense and clinging web of history and politics, and the story, full of passion and excitement, is overshadowed by a sorrow that is tragic and real.
LC Classification NumberPL248.Y275I513 2005
