The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
Sami Kent
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' – Telegraph
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Yıl:
2024
Yayımcı:
Picador
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
336
ISBN 10:
1529099269
ISBN 13:
9781529099263
Dosya:
EPUB, 840 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2024
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