Endless Country (eBook)

A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years

Sami Kent (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-5290-9928-7 (ISBN)

Infos

'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey's past and present' - Mishal Husain'A rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived experience . . . The book is alive on every page' - Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of OthersThe Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey's past - the nation the author's father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man.It is not about Erdogan or Ataturk, the two towering Presidents who have book-ended that history, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead Sami Kent's book goes deep beyond them, revealing a history as rich, layered and absurd as his family's favourite dessert, kunefe: a shredded wheat pastry with a core of melted cheese, a topping of pistachios, and a drowning of syrup.From tiny weightlifters to the world's biggest prison, from a failed socialist commune to a wildly successful orchid ice cream, the book is a tribute to the sheer bewildering diversity of Turkey's past: its people, their ideas and their struggles.'This is surely how history should be told - human, fun, alive' - The Telegraph

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-5290-9928-5 / 1529099285
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5290-9928-7 / 9781529099287