Wild Horse

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Rural Anatolia, 1950s. Once the pride of the village with her thunderous gallop and commanding presence, Doru the Mare is now left to stray, roaming untethered amid the indifferent mercy of nature. As Doru fights to survive, the community she leaves behind is forced to confront what her absence lays bare: a village already buckling under poverty and despair, now searching for its own soul.Abbas Sayar's Wild Horse stands alongside London's White Fang, Vladimov's Faithful Ruslan, and Sewell's Black Beauty, using the animal gaze to ask questions that travel across borders, and to illuminate everything we cannot say directly about ourselves. Casting an unflinching eye on the vast beauty of the Anatolian countryside and the harsh conditions that shape the lives within it, Wild Horse is a novel deeply rooted in place and yet unmistakably universal.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-29
Mått128 x 197 x 10 mm
Vikt120 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThousand Horsemen Press
Antal sidor108
FörlagThousand Horsemen Press
MedarbetareNatalia Suvorova
ISBN9781068209765
ÖversättareCan Kocak
UtmärkelserWinner of TRT Novel Award 1970

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Abbas Sayar [1923-1999] was born in Yozgat. After graduating fromhigh school, he was unable to attend university due to poverty.Following a brief period in civil service, he served as a reserveofficer. He later studied Turkology for four terms before beingforced to return to Yozgat in 1947. There, he established a printinghouse and continued publishing the biweekly newspaper Bozlak,which he had founded in Istanbul. Over the next forty-five years, hewrote thousands of editorials for the paper. Sayar also ventured intopolitics, though this proved short-lived, as he was unable toaccommodate the entrenched interests of the establishment. His firstnovel, Wild Horse, was published in 1970-fifteenyears after it was written-andwon the TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) Novel Award.Alongside his long career in journalism, he wrote eight novels andsix collections of poetry. He occupies a modest yet distinctive placein Turkish rural literature.Can Kocak is an Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies atthe University of Sussex. Before finding his way into academia, heworked as a lawyer, copywriter, and copy editor. He is the Turkishtranslator of Mladen Dolar's Rumors (Polity Press, 2025).Born in Ankara, Turkiye in 1990, he now lives in London.