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The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey

The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey

Genç, Kaya

Paperback

Travel WritingTurkeyTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 1350436771
ISBN13: 9781350436770
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 11 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

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.

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