Autorentext
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London and has spent the past decade in the Middle East and South Asia. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for a number of publications including the Independent, the Financial Times, the Economist, and the New York Review of Books.
His previous book was shortlisted for the 2004 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize
He lives in Tehran with his wife and son.
Klappentext
Zusammenfassung
An engaging and impassioned look at Turkey's identity crisis'A brilliant literary thriller, an incursion into forbidden territory that is all the more gripping for being true' The Times'Sifting through propaganda, partisan accounts and evasive oral histories, de Bellaigue delivers a comprehensive primer in Turkish political history' Guardian_______________________________What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land the acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out.Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of Varto, a place left behind in Turkey's march to modernity, medieval in its attachment to race and religious sect, he explores the violent history of conflict between Turks, Kurds and Armenians, and the maelstrom, of emotion and memories, that defines its inhabitants even today.The result is a compellingly personal account of one man's search into the past, as de Bellaigue, mistrusted by all he meets, and particularly by the secret agents of the State, applies his investigative flair and fluent Turkish to unlock jealously-guarded taboos and hold humanity's excesses up to the light of a very modern sensibility.
Titel
Rebel Land
Untertitel
Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
Autor
EAN
9781408810897
Format
ePUB
Hersteller
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Anzahl Seiten
288
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