Sarı Sıcak

Yellow Hot is the story of the superhuman struggle of the Anatolian people against poverty, hunger and oblivion. The drama of a handful of people holding tightly to their tenuous bond with life and their efforts to survive in the midst of dirt, heat and misery is expressed in twenty-two stories.

"Kemal's writing style is simple and striking; he speaks on behalf of all humanity through the mouth of the villagers."
- Publisher's Weekly, (USA)

"A terrible sensitivity and a cruel poem."
- Observer, (England)

"These stories told with simplicity and honesty are engraved in one's memory."
- The Milwauke Journal, (USA)

"Poverty, superstitions, flies, dust, working to death, vastness, exhaustion, wildness, indomitability. (...)
Pity born of despair and universal dimensions of sensitivity.”
- The Guardian, (England)

"With his books expressing the misery of the peasants and social inequality, Yaşar Kemal is the writer who most deeply influenced the last three generations in Turkey."
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung, (Switzerland)



Number of Pages: 242

Print Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Language: Turkish