Nation of Strangers Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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In a few words
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a powerful and consoling reappraisal of the concept of exile, migration and home from internationally acclaimed author and political thinker Ece Temelkuran
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a powerful and consoling reappraisal of the concept of exile, migration and home from internationally acclaimed author and political thinker Ece Temelkuran
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a powerful and consoling reappraisal of the concept of exile, migration and home from internationally acclaimed author and political thinker Ece Temelkuran
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a powerful and consoling reappraisal of the concept of exile, migration and home from internationally acclaimed author and political thinker Ece Temelkuran
In a few words
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a powerful and consoling reappraisal of the concept of exile, migration and home from internationally acclaimed author and political thinker Ece Temelkuran
Nation of Strangers is perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times, for our times
Michael Morpurgo
One of the finest books I’ve ever read on what it means to be cast out, to be unhomed. Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written
Omar El Akkad
Nation of Strangers is perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times, for our times
Michael Morpurgo
One of the finest books I’ve ever read on what it means to be cast out, to be unhomed. Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written
Omar El Akkad
Nation of Strangers is perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times, for our times
Michael Morpurgo
One of the finest books I’ve ever read on what it means to be cast out, to be unhomed. Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written
Omar El Akkad
Nation of Strangers is perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times, for our times
Michael Morpurgo
One of the finest books I’ve ever read on what it means to be cast out, to be unhomed. Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written
Omar El Akkad
Nation of Strangers is perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times, for our times
Michael Morpurgo
One of the finest books I’ve ever read on what it means to be cast out, to be unhomed. Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written
Omar El Akkad
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
‘Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker’ Omar El Akkad
‘Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet’ Brian Eno
‘Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times’ Michael Morpurgo
Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?
Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn’t happen in their country that fascism is coming.
Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise – as we face competing crises and learn, again and again, that no institution is so concrete it can’t turn to dust, and no home is too strong to be destroyed – she has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another.
Politically attuned and deeply personal, this extraordinary, heartening correspondence is a gift to treasure in uncertain times. As poetic as it is precise, it is a book for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world. It shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Dear stranger . . . Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?
Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless
and the economically excluded is growing.
Now, Ece Temelkuran, who has for years been a political Cassandra, warning the West about the rise of fascism,
has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another. It is a book for anyone who feels
alienated by an ever-more monstrous world, and a roadmap for an uncertain future.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
Dear stranger . . . Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?
Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless
and the economically excluded is growing.
Now, Ece Temelkuran, who has for years been a political Cassandra, warning the West about the rise of fascism,
has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another. It is a book for anyone who feels
alienated by an ever-more monstrous world, and a roadmap for an uncertain future.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
‘Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker’ Omar El Akkad
‘Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet’ Brian Eno
‘Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times’ Michael Morpurgo
Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?
Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn’t happen in their country that fascism is coming.
Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise – as we face competing crises and learn, again and again, that no institution is so concrete it can’t turn to dust, and no home is too strong to be destroyed – she has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another.
Politically attuned and deeply personal, this extraordinary, heartening correspondence is a gift to treasure in uncertain times. As poetic as it is precise, it is a book for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world. It shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
‘Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker’ Omar El Akkad
‘Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet’ Brian Eno
‘Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times’ Michael Morpurgo
Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?
Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn’t happen in their country that fascism is coming.
Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise – as we face competing crises and learn, again and again, that no institution is so concrete it can’t turn to dust, and no home is too strong to be destroyed – she has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another.
Politically attuned and deeply personal, this extraordinary, heartening correspondence is a gift to treasure in uncertain times. As poetic as it is precise, it is a book for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world. It shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.
Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt
Yanis Varoufakis
An essential book of our time
Lyse Doucet
Luminous
Temelkuran is a writer of rare gifts with an urgent message . . . A book you’ll ignore at your peril
Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt
Yanis Varoufakis
An essential book of our time
Lyse Doucet
Luminous
Temelkuran is a writer of rare gifts with an urgent message . . . A book you’ll ignore at your peril
Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt
Yanis Varoufakis
A new book from Ece Temelkuran is a new way of understanding the world. She is lucid, honest and often wryly funny about where we are now, and who we are becoming. And Nation of Strangers is her most ambitious and dazzling book yet
Brian Eno
Cogent and compelling
Crackling with intelligence, insight and generosity
Kamila Shamsie
Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt
Yanis Varoufakis
A new book from Ece Temelkuran is a new way of understanding the world. She is lucid, honest and often wryly funny about where we are now, and who we are becoming. And Nation of Strangers is her most ambitious and dazzling book yet
Brian Eno
Cogent and compelling
Crackling with intelligence, insight and generosity
Kamila Shamsie
Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt
Yanis Varoufakis
A new book from Ece Temelkuran is a new way of understanding the world. She is lucid, honest and often wryly funny about where we are now, and who we are becoming. And Nation of Strangers is her most ambitious and dazzling book yet
Brian Eno
Crackling with intelligence, insight and generosity
Kamila Shamsie
Temelkuran is a writer of rare gifts with an urgent message . . . A book you’ll ignore at your peril
Ece Temelkuran
View profileEce Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted for the stage. Her political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian–Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. Her second, Together, offers ‘a way out from the political and moral insanity’ that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Most recently, Nation of Strangers was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.
ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran
View profileEce Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted for the stage. Her political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian–Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. Her second, Together, offers ‘a way out from the political and moral insanity’ that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Most recently, Nation of Strangers was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.
ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran
View profileEce Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted for the stage. Her political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian–Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. Her second, Together, offers ‘a way out from the political and moral insanity’ that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Most recently, Nation of Strangers was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.
ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran
View profileEce Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted for the stage. Her political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian–Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. Her second, Together, offers ‘a way out from the political and moral insanity’ that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Most recently, Nation of Strangers was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.
ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran
View profileEce Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted for the stage. Her political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian–Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. Her second, Together, offers ‘a way out from the political and moral insanity’ that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Most recently, Nation of Strangers was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.
ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran
