The Angry Man's Ride

<p>It's 1942 and Salim a young hardworking man has spent eight long years in the coal mines to make his biggest dream a reality. With money in his pocket he purchases one hundred acres of fertile farmland. He believes he is a rich man and is content to toil on his farm. But his simple life becomes complicated when he meets the young Selma who lives on a nearby ranch with her elderly father. </P><p>A feud develops when rival farmer Kadir Toprak pursues both Salim's land and his new love Selma. This rivalry passes from one generation to the next when the building of a railroad dissects Salim's land. It's possible that Salim might have the final solution to the decades-old conflict between the two men and their families.</P><p>Telling the saga of a man fighting for his home his family and his way of life the title novella in this earthy collection is joined by four other short stories-including Love With a Ghost Lost To Be on the Road (When the Cat Decides) and Children of Destiny-all revealing the simple but meaningful lives of inhabitants of small villages where the culture is rooted in family life and the land.</P>