Romance and excitement. Confusion and deceit. Apathy and anxiety. Worship and desperation. Loss and remorse. Follow him as he makes his way through the cosmos finding women who each bring new perspective, as well as different aspects of love. On a Saturday night as any other, he sits alone by choice
Iron Earth, Copper Sky
β Scribed by Yashar Kemal
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1846559669
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**The second volume in the acclaimed The Wind from the Plain trilogy **
Turkey's greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal was an unsurpassed storyteller who brought to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal's books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. The Wind from the Plains trilogy is widely seen as his masterpiece, alongside the legendary Memed My Hawk.
After a particularly bad season, a group of poor cotton-pickers are unable to pay their creditor, shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Overwhelmed with shame and guilt, they wait in terror for Adil to come and demand retribution. But when he inexplicably fails to appear, Adil begins to represent an irrational and tyrannical force, growing in their minds until they become sick with apprehension and obsessed with the terrible disaster that is sure to come upon them.
In their despair they turn to Tashbash, a brave, decent and...
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