Iron Earth, Copper Sky

by Yaşar Kemal

Book Overview

After a bad season the poor mountain villagers, who pick cotton for their livelihood, are unable to pay their creditor, the shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Such a break with age-old tradition causes them to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688034438
• ISBN13: 9780688034436
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Myths of the Anatolia

Yashar Kemal tells of his own Anatolian Myths in a poetic style. Descriptions of the flames, reflection of ignorance, these are all very well expressed in the book, in a way that emotions and myths turn in to real, both for the villagers and the readers. Yashar Kemal turned out to be a myth in Turkish literature, because of his style of reflecting the unknown Anatolia for the urban population of the Turkey and the myths and unwritten literature of Turks, Kurds and many other ethnic groups of Cukurova. Also you should be aware that the Cukurova you will read in "Iron Earth, Copper Sky" and his other books won't be the same Cukurova you may visit today. Once in an interview, Yashar Kemal claims that "If I had written the exact Cukurova, why would I want to write it?". You should read "Iron Earth, Copper Sky" to see how being raised on a land of myths shapes a man and how a man, a writer, shapes the myths.

Excellent in everyway

A tremendous tale which is full of humanity, humour and allegory. The faith in life and the fallibility of the human race are wonderfully portrayed here by Turkey's greatest writer of the century.