{"product_id":"the-endless-country-a-personal-journey-through-turkey-s-first-hundred-years","title":"The Endless Country A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisponibilità soggetta a conferma. Tempi di evasione dell'ordine comunicati al momento dell'acquisto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey's past and present' - Mishal Husain\u003cbr\u003e 'A rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived experience . . . The book is alive on every page' - Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Endless Country\u003c\/i\u003e takes a journey through Turkey's past - the nation the author's father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is not about Erdogan or Atatürk, the two towering Presidents who have book-ended that history, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead Sami Kent's book goes deep beyond them, revealing a history as rich, layered and absurd as his family's favourite dessert, künefe: a shredded wheat pastry with a core of melted cheese, a topping of pistachios, and a drowning of syrup.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From tiny weightlifters to the world's biggest prison, from a failed socialist commune to a wildly successful orchid ice cream, the book is a tribute to the sheer bewildering diversity of Turkey's past: its people, their ideas and their struggles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'This is surely how history should be told - human, fun, alive' - \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libreria Fiore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54040943755610,"sku":null,"price":15.68,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7382\/1274\/files\/11414423482732.jpg?v=1776790774","url":"https:\/\/libreriafiore.it\/products\/the-endless-country-a-personal-journey-through-turkey-s-first-hundred-years","provider":"Libreria Fiore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}