The Lion and the Nightingale
A Journey Through Modern Turkey
(Sprache: Englisch)
Featuring new material on the 2023 elections, Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey provides vivid insight into a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future. Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split...
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Featuring new material on the 2023 elections, Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey provides vivid insight into a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future. Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future.
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Turkey is a land torn between East and West, between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genç travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of Anatolia, one of the world's oldest civilizations. Featuring new material on the 2023 elections, The Lion and the Nightingale presents the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale. Weaving together a mixture of memoir, interview and his own autobiography, Genç takes the reader on a contemporary journey through the contradictory soul of the Turkish nation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Lion and the Nightingale “
Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction 1. A Winter of Despair 2. A Spring of Hope 3. A Summer of Disssent 4. A Fall of Silence Acknowledgements Index
Autoren-Porträt von Kaya Genç
Kaya Genc is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, and New Humanist.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kaya Genç
- 2024, 224 Seiten, Maße: 13,8 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1350436771
- ISBN-13: 9781350436770
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.05.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The individual narratives of the people Genç writes about, or through, compose the book's story as a whole while situating it within the fluctuating political atmosphere of the country. This anchoring moves the reader through various human experiences - disappointment, failure, representation - with thorough exploration and deep empathy, while also examining potential future projections of a young nation. Full Stop
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