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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... become irretrievable, that my Canadian self may also be slipping away, that this ancient land will draw me into itself, absorb me and crush the self that was formed in Manitoba. For more than thirty years, as a Canadian, I secretly ...
... become unwieldy. Its treasury could no longer finance its military campaigns, yet the sultans wallowed in luxury in stanbul at the opulent Dolmabahçe Palace whose glamour matched that of Versailles. Decay had set in. In ...
... become a second 'Macedonia,' as they called the bulk of the Balkans.”They decided to rid Anatolia of its Armenian population. The majority of Anatolia's two million Armenians were deported in to Syria and Mesopotamia. Hundreds ...
... become addicted to the opera in Ankara. In the spring, we hear Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin performed in Russian (with surtitles in Turkish) — such a difficult work, sung exquisitely. Eugene Onegin is repeated in the fall ...
... become a crowded, noisy suburb full of apartment blocks. The bungalows and most of the fruit trees are gone. Akalın is still there, but it no longer has a terrace. And a bank — a five-storey block, all gleaming glass, steel, and ...
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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 |