Rebel Land : Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

de Bellaigue, Christopher

ISBN 10: 1594202524 / ISBN 13: 9781594202520

Edité par Penguin Publishing Group, 2010

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Synopsis :

Rebel Land In an intellectual detective story, an esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. Christopher de Bellaigue unravels the enigma of the Turkish 20th century, a time that contains the death of an empire, the founding of a nation, and the near extinction of a people. Full description

Présentation de l'éditeur: "A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk

In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for The New York Review of Books, in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians from Turkey in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman Empire. Upon publication, the Review was besieged with letters asserting that this was not war but genocide. How had he gotten it so wrong? De Bellaigue set out for Turkey's troubled southeast to discover what really happened. What emerged is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity. Rebel Land unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century-a time that contains the death of an empire, the founding of a nation, and the near extinction of a people.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Rebel Land : Unraveling the Riddle of ...
Éditeur : Penguin Publishing Group
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good
Edition : First Edition.