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Kemal, Yashar
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YASHAR KEMAL (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, Memed, My Hawk won the Varlik Prize for best novel of the year in 1955. Kemal's numerous other books include The Wind from the Plain trilogy, Salman the Solitary, Seagull, and three other books recounting the expoits of Memed, including, They Burn the Thistles.
BILL MCKIBBEN is a former staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include Hundred Dollar Holiday, Maybe One, The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information and Hope, Human and Wild. McKibben is a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications, including The New York Review of Books, Outside, and The New York Times. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0688031641
- ISBN 13 9780688031640
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages412
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They Burn the Thistles
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William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York
(1977)
ISBN 10: 0688031641
ISBN 13: 9780688031640
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First US Edition. First US edition, hardcover with minor binding error leaving the internal hinges slightly misaligned, the book has a mild skew to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, faint sunning to the spine and head, and spots and smudges to the edges of the text block. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Near Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has sun fading to the spine, bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, rubbing with some smudging to the covers, and a small area of sticker remnants to the upper corner of the front. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 203632
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