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.
... rising behind the concrete blocks that fill my neighbourhood. The taxi driver doesn't even notice the sight. The crowds rushing through the congested sidewalks don't seem to pay attention to it, either. Had I not left this country as an ...
... rise of political Islam. I also wanted to understand the tensions in my country of origin. At middle age I was filled with a need to write about Anatolia, to bridge my two worlds, to try to reduce the “otherness” of the Turks — to make ...
... rise over ancient Roman columns in Ankara, olive groves and nut-bearing pine forests have been razed by a gold mine that poisons the land and water in Pergamon, a dam lake has flooded the exquisite mosaics of the ancient Roman city of ...
... rise over and above all other myths, reach every corner of peo- ple's lives.The hills around the cities are covered with gecekondus (squatters' houses). In shantytowns women wearing kerchiefs watch American soap operas on television in ...
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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 |