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The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
 
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ISBN13:9781350436770
ISBN10:1350436771
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:224 pages
Size:216x138 mm
Weight:454 g
Language:English
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The Lion and the Nightingale

A Journey Through Modern Turkey
 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Number of Volumes: Paperback
 
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Short description:

Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future.

Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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