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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... trees, land, and sky. The crowds, energy, and even disorder of Anatolia drew me like magnets as if this were the real world, while affluent, spacious Canada seemed remote, insulated, and immune. I was frantic to take things back from ...
... trees on the campus, sparkle after each downpour. “They're laughing,” a student once said about the dripping trees. In late February, the large weeping willow in front of the cafeteria begins to grow green shoots. Buds form on ...
... trees at the corner of Twenty-first Street and Seventh Avenue. From its open windows, Bach's twopart inventions and Mozart's piano sonatas spilled out onto the street every evening as my sister, Gülsün, practised the piano several hours ...
... 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 concrete — sits on the corner where my family once had a pink stucco house in a garden full of ...
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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 |