{"product_id":"9781398529908-anthropologists","title":"The Anthropologists","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love. Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​\u003c\/b\u003e'Immaculately observed. I found myself not wanting \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e to end.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Savaş’ prose is an X-ray – an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life.’ \u003cb\u003eRAVEN LEILANI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e__________________________________________________________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentary filmmaker, spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs, anxious to know how people really live. ‘Forget about daily life,’ chides her grandmother on the phone, ‘no one cares about that.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, life back in Asya and Manu's respective home countries continues – parents age, grandparents get sick, nieces and nephews grow up – all just slightly beyond their reach. But the world they're making in their new city is growing, too, they hope. As they open up the horizons of their lives, what and whom will they hold onto, and what will they need to release?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnfolding over a series of apartment viewings, late-night conversations, last rounds of drinks and lazy breakfasts, \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e is a soulful examination of home-building and modern love, written with Aysegül Savaş’ distinctive elegance, warmth and humour.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e __________________________________________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTHE ANTHROPOLOGISTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e is about love, youth, and that most profound and elusive of subjects – happiness. Full of delicacy, wisdom and wit, this is another gorgeous work from one of my favourite writers.’ \u003cb\u003eKATIE KITAMURA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e ‘Like Walter Benjamin, Ayşegül Savaş uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e is mesmerising; I felt I read it in a single breath.’ \u003cb\u003eGARTH GREENWELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ‘Yet another gorgeous, gorgeous book from Aysegül Savaş: she is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows. Savaş knows hope. Savaş knows despair. Savaş knows joy, and malaise, and laughter and curiosity. There are worlds inside of Savaş' prose, and \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropologists\u003c\/i\u003e is both a bright light and a map for how to be. A massively heartening achievement.’ \u003cb\u003eBRYAN WASHINGTON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41513786966113,"sku":"9781398529908","price":12.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31792355_c4630b5f-fc1d-4b17-87a6-5c88a684913c.jpg?v=1747918159","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781398529908-anthropologists","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}