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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... Wrapped in Fine Cloth 99 7 One GreatqGod 121 'Rising Waters 149 Deadly Honzur 179 The Curse Dionysos 197 Memory ls for People 213 I Selected Bibliography 2 37 this page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements I gratefully acknowledge the.
... memories; my brother, Semih Bilgen (who took some of the photos in this book); my sister, Gülsün Bilgen-Konuray, for love I've always counted on; my son, Errol Reinart, for rapidly dispatching a laptop to me when my old computer broke ...
... memory until they 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 ...
... memories are in Winnipeg. My sons live in Vancouver and Toronto. For fifteen years, as a journalist, I told Canada's stories. My own days were woven into the texture of life in Canada. It was my country — it still is. But Turkey is also ...
... memories of that land — its rhythms, its smells, its temperament, its ancient joys and pains (for what is culture if it is not collective memory that is somehow transmitted through the generations?), the pleasure of my mother tongue ...
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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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