Yapı Kredi Yayınları Yellow Hot Yaşar Kemal

It is the story of the inhuman struggle of the yellow hot anatolian people against extinction, hunger, and forgottenness. The drama of the tight embraces and survival efforts of a handful of people in the midst of filth, heat, misery with life is expressed in twenty-two stories. Kemal's writing style is lean and striking; it speaks for all humanity from the mouth of the villagers. -publisher's weekly, (usa) It's a terrible susceptibility and a brutal poem... -observer (uk) told with simplicity and honesty, these stories are engraved in the human memory. -the milwaukee journal, (a.b.d.) Poverty, idle people, flies,dust, working till death, vastness, exhaustion, wildness, inviolability. (...) universal dimensions of pity and sensitivity born of desperation. -the guardian, (uk) yaşar kemal, with his books denouncing the misery and social inequality of the peasants, is the author who has most deeply affected the last three generations in turkey. -neue zürcher zeitung, (switzerland) Introduction text