Die Memed-Romane, mit Buch, mit Buch, mit Buch, mit Buch

In the remote villages on the edge of the Anatolian Taurus Mountains, the landowner Abdi Aga holds power. The soil is so poor that only thistles seem to thrive on it. From every harvest, the Aga demands two-thirds. Memed, the farmer's son, has drawn his ire. He is forced to flee into the mountains. The frail, timid boy transforms into a bandit, a rebel, and a avenger of the people. The farmers place their hopes in him, while the landowners barricade themselves in their homes in fear. In his struggle against the Aga, Memed ultimately loses everything: his mother, his bride, the fertile field that the farmers had prepared for him after the amnesty. But from the day the revenge against Abdi Aga is fulfilled, the farmers burn the thistles each year, sow the grain in the ashes, and bring the harvests into their own barns. And at the joyous festival before plowing, a fireball appears on the mountain where Memed has disappeared.