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Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal An appealing first novel from Turkey tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood...
MEMED MY HAWK (371 pp.)-Yashar Kemal-Pantheon...
Fantastic though it seems, Author Yashar Kemal, 39, has lived much of his novel. Village-born, of Kurdish descent, Kemal was five years old when his father was murdered by an enemy while kneeling beside his son in the mosque. The experience left Kemal with a stammer, which he cured by chanting the traditional songs of Turkish troubadours. This folk poetry glows in his description of the bleak Anatolian land where, each spring, it seems as if "a green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also...