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Bilgen-Reinart, Ustun

Porcelain Moon And Pomegranates: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey

Dundurn Press, 2007

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Year of publication
2007
ISBN
1550026585
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Bilgen-Reinart, Ustun
Publishers
Dundurn Press
Edition
1st Can Ed.
Keyword
TURKEY HISTORY DESCRIPTION TRAVEL TURKISH CANADIAN WRITER
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

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, Ustun 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. 240. illus bibliography