{"product_id":"the-endless-country-a-personal-journey-through-turkeys-first-hundred-years-by-sami-kent-9781529099270","title":"The Endless Country : A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaptivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey's past and present' - Mishal Husain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 The Lives of Others\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Endless Country 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is surely how history should be told - human, fun, alive' - The Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sami Kent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55719965688181,"sku":"9781529099270","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781529099270.jpg?v=1754128880","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/the-endless-country-a-personal-journey-through-turkeys-first-hundred-years-by-sami-kent-9781529099270","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}