The endless country : a personal journey through Turkey's first hundred years
Kent, Sami2024
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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 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.
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London : Picador, 2024.London : Picador, 2024.
Collation:
336 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529099263 (hbk)
Dewey class:
956.102
Language:
English
BRN:
2914610