ARGONAUT BOOKS

A dizzying tour de force: the simultaneously cosmic and microscopic record of a transformative decade in Istanbul, Turkey, and the world. Current events and political analyses are deftly interwoven with, and sometimes subverted by, firsthand accounts of life as it is actually lived. By turns gutting and exhilarating, filled with vitality and humanity, Hansen's writing defies cynicism, thwarts easy generalizations, and leaves the reader with a sense of wonderELIF BATUMAN, author of THE IDIOTStruggling to make sense of the sweeping changes that have transformed Turkey in the past decade under Pr...Read More