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A profound and remarkable book about human emotions, hopes and limitations in a lush landscape, lushly described, but an unforgiving social world.


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They Burn the Thistles Memed Yashar Kemal Margaret E Platon Bill McKibben Books Reviews

Kemal self-consciously aims to create a modern myth, but They Burn the Thistles falls short. The plot is relatively simple and ought to have been more interesting - the protagonist, Memed, arrives amidst a terrible land war in which the peasants are getting the very short end of the stick from the newly empowered ruling class. Memed's previous heroics, known to the characters in the book but not to the reader (unless one has read prior volumes written by Kemal), apparently inspire an uprising of sorts by the peasants. Events escalate until they are finally terrible enough for Memed to save the day, sort of. All of this is drawn out interminably. The book's virtues are in the strangeness of place and culture, but they are greatly outweighed by the oddly uneven prose, which mixes occasional power and insightful descriptions of characters' conscious thoughts with overly long descriptions of landscape and highly purple dialogue. Much as I wanted to appreciate the book more, I hesitate to recommend it.
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A profound and remarkable book about human emotions, hopes and limitations in a lush landscape, lushly described, but an unforgiving social world.