{"product_id":"9781529099270-endless-country-a-personal-journey-through-turkeys-first-hundred-years","title":"The Endless Country","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.\u003cbr\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\u003eIt 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\u003eFrom 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41739612913761,"sku":"9781529099270","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34965201_c8bc9bbf-36eb-4e33-a38b-a299c38eb561.jpg?v=1750931181","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529099270-endless-country-a-personal-journey-through-turkeys-first-hundred-years","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}