The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey

by Kaya Genç

Book Overview

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788314964
• ISBN13: 9781788314961
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"