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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
Af: Sami Kent
Engelsk Hardback
The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
Af: Sami Kent
Engelsk Hardback

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''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 Others


The 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 Atatürk, 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, künefe: 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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781529099263
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1529099269
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 jun 2024
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
242mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
27 jun 2024
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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