Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through TurkeyDundurn, 2007 - 240 halaman For millennia, the land now called Turkey has been at the crossroads of history. A bridge between Europe and Asia, between West and East, between Christianity and Islam, the peninsula also known as Anatolia, the place where the sun rises, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions on the planet. In this unique blend of memoir and travel literature, Ãoestün Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country, whisking the reader on a journey through time, memory, and space. She searches deep into the roots of her own ancestry and uncovers a family secret, breaks taboos in a nation that still takes tradition very seriously, and navigates through dangerous territory that sees her investigating brothels in Ankara, probing honour murders in Sanliurfa, encountering Kurds in the remote southeast, and witnessing the rape of the earth by a gold mining company in Bergama. |
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... became my first friend in Turkey); my forgotten relatives, Eleni and Eftalya Kanaki; whirling dervish Didem Edman; Necla Hattapog ̆lu of the Women's Platform in Diyarbakır; the women at the brothel in Ankara, including Hacer, Nuray ...
... became a journalist. I grew used to rituals of survival in ferocious winters. The rhythmic scraping of snow shovels on cold, still nights after a blizzard. The slow grind and hiccup of cars needing a jump-start. The fog and frost on my ...
... became a formidable Islamic empire. In the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, the capital and bastion of Orthodox Christianity, was a disaster for medieval Christendom. The story of the siege and fall of Constantinople is one ...
... became a lawyer and worked for the gov- ernment. He knows five languages: Greek, French, German, English, and Turkish. My affectionate, protective mother belonged to the first generation of university-educated Turkish women. On winter ...
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Mam Kubileya Mountain Mother | 33 |
Gilded lcons Wrapped in Fine Cloth | 99 |
Deadly Honzur | 179 |
The Curse Dionysos | 197 |
Memory ls for People | 213 |
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Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Pratinjau terbatas - 2007 |