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Memed, My Hawk

Monument to İnce Memed in Hemite, Yaşar Kemal's birthplace — Klaus-Peter Simon / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Author: Yaşar Kemal
Published: 1955
Language: türkcə

The story of Memed, a young villager in the Çukurova who takes to the mountains rather than bear a landlord's tyranny. Carrying the spirit of folk epics, the four-volume novel made Yaşar Kemal world-famous and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

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