EAN: 9781529099270

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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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