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They Burn the Thistles

Written by Yashar Kemal
Translated by Margaret E. Platon
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Trade Paperback | 424 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Adventure
978-1-59017-185-1 (1-59017-185-3)

November 21, 2006 | $21.50

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They Burn the Thistles
Written by Yashar Kemal, Translated by Margaret E. Platon, Introduction by Bill McKibben

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171851
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Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings 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. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas of mountain and stream and field...