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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... fall of Constantinople is one of such heroism and doom that I often won- der if the West's fear and hatred of the Turks began with that event. At its height, during the early eighteenth century, the western boundaries of the Ottoman ...
... fall, so we return and applaud until our palms burn. A week later I go to George Frideric Handel's Deidamia. I have never seen a Baroque opera before, and I rave to Jean, “I might have expected this quality of performance in a city like ...
... fall — shells that have completed their task of seeding and await decay. Later, one evening, as my brother and I have tea with our parents, my mother breaks into a ballad: “Selanikte top atılır, gidim bakim kim vurulmus Yarim vurulmus ...
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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 |