Yellow Hot

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 from the mouth of the villagers."
- Publisher's Weekly, (USA)

"Terrible sensitivity and cruel poetry."
- Observer, (England)

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

"Poverty, superstitions, flies, dust, working to death, vastness, exhaustion, wildness, indomitability. (...)
"Universal dimensions of pity and sensitivity born of despair."
- The Guardian, (UK)

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