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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... Mother 33 Sacred Women 75 L.Gilded lcons 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 ...
... mother, Hidayet Bilgen, for sharing their 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 ...
... mother tongue was replaced with English or French and the noisy, chaotic, hot streets of Ankara disappeared as if a curtain had descended on them. On the ride home from the Winnipeg airport, I always noticed how different the quality of ...
... mother tongue — all these lay buried under the psychological layers that formed an efficient, adaptive Canadian self. In I left - to write Night Spirits, a book about a Dene community in northern Manitoba. I also ...
... (Mother) or Matar Kubileya (Mountain Mother). People often feel an urge to understand their own past in order to gain insights into the present. I feel compelled to delve into Anatolia's past. A long and loaded human past must affect the ...
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