Yashar Kemel's novel: World literature? or Action Comic?

Yashar Kemel's "They Burn the Thistles" might make a pretty good movie, might even make a pretty good American Western, if someone wanted to adapt it. But is it a great or even a good novel, or just a bunch of gunslinger cliches mixed in with some tales from remote Turkish villages? And if it is this mix, is that enough to make it great world literature? It's an odd book, full of these kinds of contradictions. On the one hand, easy to read, as the plot moves along at a pretty good clip and there aren't a whole lot of characters or complex events, everything's pretty much black and white - the good guys are good and the bad guys are evil, with no shading at all. On the other hand, it can be hard to read because of the many unusual (to me) names and place names and the rather long passages in which not much happens. On the one hand, it's an action-adventure, with a heroic figure coming back to his home town/village to exact vengeance against the evil tyrant who'd killed his beloved and members of his family. On the other hand, there's a lot of writing about nature - unusual in an action novel. On the one hand, the story moves along quickly, it's plot-driven. On the other hand, we're way ahead of the characters - we don't need Uncle Osman to say a hundred times, as he does, how much he loves Slim Memed and how he wishes he could tell the whole village that Memed is back - it gets tedious and repetitious, and I find myself skimming. One the one hand, you've read books like this (even comic books) before. On the other hand: were they set in rural Turkey?