Beschreibung
'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
| EAN: | 9781529099270 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Auflage: | Main Market Ed. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 26.06.2025 |
| Autoren: | Kent, Sami |
| Auflage/Ausgabe: | Main Market Ed |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 336 |
| Themenüberschrift: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs~HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire |
| Keyword: | Atatürk; Erdogan; history; Ottoman Empire; travel books; travel writing; Turkey; Turkish history; twentieth century history; istanbul; ankara; west asia; southeast europe; sociopolitical writing |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte~Naher Osten - Nahost~Nahost~Osmanisches Reich~Türkei / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft, Recht~Türkei |
| Fachkategorie: | Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen~Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens |
| Altersempfehlung / Lesealter: | 18 |
| ab Alter: | 18 |
| Imprint-Titels: | Picador |