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.
Wild Horse
£10.99
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, this is a novel deeply rooted in place and yet unmistakably universal.
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| Weight | 0.12 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.8 × 1 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 108 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Paperback original |
| Dewey | 894.3533 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
