Description
| Product ID: | 9781529099263 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Endless Country |
| Subtitle: | A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years |
| Authors: | Author: Sami Kent |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, General and world history, Regional & national history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history. <p><b>'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Mishal Husain<br>'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 <i>The Lives of Others</i></b><br><br><b><i>The Endless Country</i> takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-06-27 |