Endless Country
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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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sami Kent
EAN: 9781529099263
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
WIDTH: 153 cm
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Book Themes:
Turkey, European history, History of other geographical groupings and regions, Social and cultural history
Sami Kent is a writer and radio producer based between London and Istanbul. He has reported on Turkey for The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, Al Jazeera, The London Review of Books and many publications. He has also made several radio documentaries for the BBC, and is now working for The Guardian’s award-winning podcast ‘Today in Focus’. The Endless Country is his first book.
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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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sami Kent
EAN: 9781529099263
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
WIDTH: 153 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Turkey, European history, History of other geographical groupings and regions, Social and cultural history
Sami Kent is a writer and radio producer based between London and Istanbul. He has reported on Turkey for The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, Al Jazeera, The London Review of Books and many publications. He has also made several radio documentaries for the BBC, and is now working for The Guardian’s award-winning podcast ‘Today in Focus’. The Endless Country is his first book.
