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Kent, Sami

 
9781529099270: The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
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ISBN 10: 1529099277 ISBN 13: 9781529099270
Verlag: Picador, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

'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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529099277
ISBN 13 
9781529099270
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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