Tabs & Twists
Memed, My Hawk
The epic story of young Memed, who flees to the mountains of Çukurova to escape the cruelty of the local agha and rises from outlaw to folk hero.
- Genre
- Drama
- Subgenre
- Social realism
- Setting / Period
- Rural Anatolia
- Tone
- Epic
- Publisher
- Yapı Kredi Yayınları
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 436
- Language
- Turkish
Review
Growing up in poverty and oppression in Değirmenoluk, a village at the foot of the Taurus Mountains, Memed rises up against Abdi Agha, the landlord who crushes the villagers.
Once in the mountains, Memed comes to question what it means to be a bandit and gradually becomes a symbol of hope against injustice. Yaşar Kemal portrays the land and people of Çukurova in a language like no other.