Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples (Paperback)
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Short Description for Rebel Land What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? This book features the author's journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out.
Full description- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published: 19 April 2010
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: European History | Asian History | Middle Eastern History
- ISBN 13: 9780747596769 ISBN 10: 074759676X
- Sales rank: 261,395
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2010
'This journey to Eastern Turkey and the town of Varto where de Bellaigue lived becomes an examination of the way crises and ethnic wars develop where people care deeply about land and spill blood to avoid extinction. De Bellaigue makes the investigation personal and layered; he does not shrink from the obstructions thrown up by bureaucrats or taciturn witnesses; he dares to show the attractive and repellent sides of the participants in these bitter struggles between Turks, Kurds and Armenians. In a region where so much of the past is blurred by denial, this book gives us much greater understanding.'
The Orwell Prize is Britain's most prestigious prize for political writing. The Book Prize judges for 2010 were Jonathan Heawood (director, English PEN), Andrew Holgate (literary editor, Sunday Times) and Francine Stock (writer and broadcaster). by The Orwell Prize
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