by Yashar Kemal · Noguer y Caralt · tapa dura · ISBN 9788421727614
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«El halcón» is the novel by Turkish writer Yashar Kemal, published by Noguer y Caralt in hardcover (307 pages, in Spanish).
Memed, the Falcon, is the protagonist: a rebel who flees to the mountains of Anatolia, becomes a bandit, and ends up as a legend and hope for the oppressed. The novel, rooted in the region's popular memory, is an epic about social injustice and the struggle for freedom.
First installment of the İnce Memed saga, originally published in 1955. Translation by D. Manfredi Cano and A. Ruiz García. Kemal won the Turkish National Literature Prize for this work.
For readers of fiction classics and Turkish literature, interested in stories of rebellion and struggle against injustice in the rural world.
Yaşar Kemal was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of his 1955 novel Memed, My Hawk.
