Iron Earth, Copper Sky - Brossura

Kemal, Yashar

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860461050 ISBN 13: 9781860461057

Casa editrice: Harvill Press, 1989

Riassunto

After a bad season the poor mountain villagers, who pick cotton for their livelihood, are unable to pay their creditor, the shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Such a break with age-old tradition causes them to be overwhelmed with a sense of guilt. They wait in terror for Adil to come, but he fails to appear and in his inexplicable absence his figure swells till it fills their minds and they become sick with the apprehension of some terrible disaster. In their despair they look to tashbash, his innocent doubts and mental torment, the fate that comes upon him and the very apposite conclusion combine to make a moving story alive with acute observation of human nature, containing passages of lyrical beauty and deep compassion. Iron Earth, Copper Sk is the second volume of The Wind from the Plain trilogy, a sequel to The Wind from the Plain.

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L'autore:

Yashar Kemal (1923 - 2015) was born on the cotton-growing plains of Chukurova, which feature in his The Wind from the Plain trilogy. His championship of poor peasants lost him a succession of jobs, but he was eventually able to buy a typewriter and set himself up as a public letter-writer in the small town of Kadirli. After a spell as a journalist, he published a volume of short stories in 1952, and then, in 1955, his first novel Memed, My Hawk won the Varlik Prize for best novel of the year. His highly distinguished literary career continued in this vein; his work won countless prizes from all over the world and has been translated into several languages. Kemal was a member of the Central Committee of the banned Workers' Party, and in 1971 he was held in prison for 26 days before being released without charge. Subsequently, he was placed on trial for action in support of Kurdish dissidents. Among the many international prizes and honours he received in recognition of his gifts as a writer and his courageous fight for human rights, were the French Légion d'Honneur and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, as well as being nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kemal was Turkey's most influential living writer and, in the words of John Berger, "one of the modern world's great storytellers".

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• Editore: Harvill Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1860461050
• ISBN 13: 9781860461057
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224