Kemal writes compellingly and brutally of the death of the old ways on the Chukurova Plain of Turkey in this powerful novel ["The Lords of Akchasaz: Part I, Murder in the Ironsmiths Market"]…. In earlier highly praised novels, Kemal wrote of the same place, but of the poor who were tied to the land. Here he centers on two Beys, wealthy landowners, whose blood feud has run for generations…. Blood and death stalk these pages, in fantasy and fact…. But as Kemal tells the stories of the adversaries, he also suggests the changing times, shows the exchange of contemporary values for the old proud ways, points to the new ways creeping onto the beautiful wild plain with the coming of cars and tractors. Kemal sets his grisly blood feud against the incredible beauties of the land, in a time when change is in the air, but when those...