Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher: Penguin Press
Imprint: Penguin Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.494kg
ISBN: 9781594202520
ISBN 10: 1594202524
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 04 March 2010
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Format: Undefined
Publisher's Status: Unknown
Availability: In Print
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