by Yashar Kemal · Methuen Publishing Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413597106
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«The Sea-Crossed Fisherman» is the novel by Yashar Kemal, published by Methuen Publishing Ltd in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Set in a fishing village on the Turkish coast, the novel follows a fisherman and his community when a murder unleashes tensions and unexpected events, with the sea as a backdrop.
Translated from Turkish by Thilda Kemal, its original title is «Deniz Küstü»; it is part of Methuen's Modern Fiction collection, which published it in 1986.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Turkish literature; the cover reproduces a comment by John Berger praising Kemal's writing.
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.
