Suzy Hansen: From Life Itself, Gebunden
From Life Itself
- Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan
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- Verlag:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 04/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374298432
- Umfang:
- 368 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 28.4.2026
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One neighborhood in Istanbul: a window on a city, country, region, and world in a state of upheaval. Karagumruk, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for its cheap apartment blocks and petty thieves-and a massive influx of Syrian refugees. It's here that Suzy Hansen went looking for the truth behind the headlines of the Turkish president Erdöan's authoritarian turn, a catastrophic regional war, and an accelerating geopolitical crisis. She discovered the neighborhood's secrets and got to know its people: Ismail, the longtime muhtar, or neighborhood councilman; Huseyin, a loyalist for Erdöan's Islamic nationalist AK party; and Ebru, a real estate agent and mother with ambitions to unseat Ismail.
From Life Itself is the absorbing account of one neighborhood in Istanbul that has seen profound change. But in a remarkable turn, Hansen connects the events unfolding in Karagumruk to the forces roiling Turkey, the Middle East, and the world. She asks: Was Turkey a harbinger of what we'd soon see in other countries, the resurgence of authoritarianism? Or do the lives of this neighborhood, and the transformations of Erdöan's Turkey, reveal a more complex story?
The author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Notes on a Foreign Country , Hansen explores Turkey's place in the world as no other writer has.From Life Itselfis a book for our time-a story for a world out of joint, and for all of us who feel the pressure of the disorienting global forces remaking our lives.