{"product_id":"they-burn-the-thistles-9781590171851","title":"They Burn the Thistles","description":"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, rise up from the pages of his books with primitive force. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMemed--introduced in Kemal's legendary first novel, \u003ci\u003eMemed, My Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e, and a recurrent character in many of his books--is one of the few truly mythic figures of modern fiction, a desperado and sometime defender of the oppressed who is condemned to wander in the blood-soaked gray zone between justice and the law. In \u003ci\u003eThey Burn the Thistles\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the finest of Kemal's novels, Memed is on the run. Hunted by his enemies, wounded, at wit's end, he has lost faith in himself and has retreated to ponder the vanity of human wishes. Only a chance encounter with an extraordinarily beautiful and powerful stallion, itself a hunted creature, serves to restore his determination and rouse him to action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16156585\"\u003eYashar Kemal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.28w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590171853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC002000\"\u003eAction \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYASHAR KEMAL\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-2015) was born into a Kurdish family in a village in southern Anatolia and saw his father brutally murdered at the age of five. He received his basic education in village schools before working as an agricultural laborer, factory-worker, public letter-writer, and journalist. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eMemed, My Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e won the Varlik Prize for best novel of the year in 1955. Kemal's numerous other books include \u003ci\u003eThe Wind from the Plain\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eSalman the Solitary, Seagull, \u003c\/i\u003e and three other books recounting the expoits of Memed, including, \u003ci\u003eThey Burn the Thistles\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBILL MCKIBBEN \u003c\/b\u003eis a former staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eHundred Dollar Holiday, Maybe One, The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHope, Human and Wild\u003c\/i\u003e. McKibben is a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, Outside, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44523476943085,"sku":"9781590171851","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5acbf844-5383-43ef-90d5-d1a223786e64.jpg?v=1701319786","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/they-burn-the-thistles-9781590171851","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}