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Memed, My Hawk

Yashar Kemal

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1955
Originally in
Originally in Turkish
Pages
Pages 380

A young Anatolian peasant is driven from his land by a village tyrant, flees into the mountains to become a bandit, and returns years later as a legend to take his revenge and free his people.

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Memed, My Hawk, Yashar Kemal

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