The plane tree of our literature, the great master Yaşar Kemal's book, A Bird with One Wing, is an epic novel about the fear that spreads in society like a contagious disease. A mysterious dark town whose people are not sure why they left, a postmaster who is assigned to this town but cannot leave, a stationmaster who is the symbol of loneliness, an "Alamanci" young woman... And a world that seems extremely realistic despite all its fantasy... A metaphor? Is it an allegory? With its surprising and multi-layered flow of events, the richness and depth of its characters, and its fairy-tale language that sometimes gains the sharpness of an interview, it is a complete Yaşar Kemal novel. Yaşar Kemal, who describes the fear that spreads like a contagious disease in society in A Bird with One Wing, says about the main theme of the book, fear, "I have always been afraid of fear. I have been very afraid of fear. When I write a novel, I do not want fear inside me. That is why I have told about fear in this book. There was a big stone on the town where I did my military service in Kayseri and the whole town was afraid that this stone would fall on them, so they tied the stone with iron chains so that it would not fall on them. If you are afraid, then I would say, go away. I wanted to write about this fear for years." He talks about the difficult journey of the protagonists of his novel, Postmaster Remzi Bey and his wife Melek Hanim, and the postal service, which was much harsher at the time. Speaking about his profession, Yaşar Kemal says, "At that time, there was no one more important than the postman in Anatolia. The postman was especially important to me. Back then, letters would come to me. The gendarmes would read these letters before me. Sometimes I would write articles and want to send them to the newspaper. Sometimes these articles would go, sometimes they wouldn't." Yaşar Kemal's novel A Bird with One Wing, which he wrote in the late 1960s and has now decided to publish, is not only a historical document that takes the reader to the Anatolia of the 1960s, but also reveals an important period in the great master's literature.

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