Come seguendo a ritroso l'antica via della seta, dopo l'India The Passenger torna in Europa e scopre il fascino e le contraddizioni di un paese al crocevia tra Oriente e Occidente. Negli ultimi anni è diventato sempre più difficile capire quale sia la vera Turchia, scossa da plebisciti a Erdoğan e dalle manifestazioni di Gezi park del 2013, che sono riuscite a unire nelle proteste gli ultras delle tre squadre di calcio più importanti del paese, dalla resistenza curda e da un colpo di stato ancora irrisolto. Che fine stanno facendo gli oppositori che osano criticare il nuovo sultano? Come i disegnatori dei giornali satirici descritti da Valentina Marcella, oppressi da un controllo sempre più stringente sulla libertà di parola. Un grande reportage del New Yorker ci mostra come la macchina da guerra di Erdoğan sia arrivata anche a sbaragliare ex alleati conservatori come il movimento gülenista, un vero e proprio stato nello stato che per decenni si è infiltrato nell'esercito e nell'amministrazione statale turca. La grande penna di Elif Batuman ci porta a scavare non solo metaforicamente nelle viscere di Istanbul, da cui emergono resti archeologici di valore inestimabile ma di scarso interesse per la lobby dell'edilizia, occupata solo a ultimare il tunnel sotto il Bosforo, sullo sfondo di un revisionismo storico che ribalta quella che era l'immagine della Turchia fondata da Atatürk. Oggi chi è al governo ha scelto di puntare su un capitolo ben preciso della storia nazionale, un'eredità ottomana da celebrare sprigionando tutto il soft power turco, come nel caso delle dizi, le serie tv che stanno conquistando il mondo, sfidando la supremazia della cultura pop americana con i loro valori più conservatori, come ci racconta bene Fatima Bhutto. Ma lontano dal centro nevralgico del paese vivono altre Turchie, marginali e abbandonate come la città curda di Hasankeyf, dove un insediamento di 12mila anni fa viene sacrificato per costruire una diga che sommergerà il borgo, o Gaziantep, città di frontiera e modello di integrazione – tra mille difficoltà – tra la popolazione locale e i profughi curdi. Si racconta anche della scena della musica rap, apparsa a Istanbul negli anni Novanta ed esplosa di recente; di un modo di fare business che rincorre il sogno di una grande ricchezza, malgrado le mille instabilità dell'economia turca, in un pezzo della giornalista turco-britannica Alev Scott; e di un movimento femminista centenario che si trova improvvisamente intrappolato tra due realtà, una laica e una religiosa, e cerca di adeguare la sua lotta a un paese tra i più violenti nei confronti di donne e appartenenti alla comunità Lgbt. Lo scrittore Burhan Sönmez, infine, ci accompagna in un malinconico viaggio alla scoperta del villaggio della sua infanzia, nella regione dell'Anatolia.
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IN THIS VOLUME, Elif Batuman, Burhan Sönmez, Elif Shafak among other Turkish writers, many of them in self-imposed exile, explore a fascinating yet maddening country.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 'The Big Dig' by Elif Batuman'A Story of Dust and Light' by Burhan Sonmez'An Author Recommends' by Elif ShafakPlus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more.The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey was a complex country long before the rise of its new sultan: born out of the ashes of a vast multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, Turkey has grappled through its relatively short history with the definition of its own identity. Poised between competing ideologies, secularism and piousness, a militaristic nationalism and exceptional openness to foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and categories. Through the voices of some of its best writers and journalists- many of them in self-imposed exile-The Passenger tries to make sense of this fascinating, maddening country, analyzing how it got to where it is now, and finding the bright spots of hope that allow its always resourceful, often frustrated population to continue living, and thriving. "Tremendously eclectic and classily produced . . . each volume gets under the skin of a country or a city in a multifaceted way that feels essential in these times of narrowing national horizons." -Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781787702424
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Paperback. Condición: New. The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and illustrations; charts, and unusual facts and observations, each volume offers a unique insight into a different culture, and how history has shaped the place into what it is today. Brimming with intricate research and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global travel.IN THIS VOLUME, Elif Batuman, Burhan Sönmez, Elif Shafak among other Turkish writers, many of them in self-imposed exile, explore a fascinating yet maddening country. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey was a complex country long before the rise of its new sultan: born out of the ashes of a vast multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, Turkey has grappled through its relatively short history with the definition of its own identity. Poised between competing ideologies, secularism and piousness, a militaristic nationalism and exceptional openness to foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and categories. Through the voices of some of its best writers and journalists, The Passenger analyses how it got to where it is today and finds the bright spots of hope that allow its always resourceful, often frustrated population to continue living, and thriving. Nº de ref. del artículo: LU-9781787702424
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