The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's
history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding
career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a
bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron'Read this book if you're
interested in Turkey. Read it if you're interested in power, hubris
and redemption. Read it' Christopher de Bellaigue, author of The
Islamic EnlightenmentIn the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy
Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic,
revealing and little-known episode in the country's history - the
'original' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime
Minister Adnan Menderes.The story of Menderes - to his adoring
supporters the country's founding democrat, to his sworn enemies
its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that
continues to rage between the Western and secular ambitions of a
minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the
small-town majority. A Coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the
events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that
followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling,
courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and
ideological division. Seal travels through President Erdogan's
Turkey, tracking down eye-witness accounts from survivors of the
Menderes era in Istanbul, the historic metropolis, and the new
capital at Ankara.As he expertly guides us through this
extraordinary story, so the compelling parallels between past and
present become strikingly clear, and he illuminates this troubled
nation with a deep sympathy and love for the people and places he
writes about. By focussing on one key event - one which many Turks
regard with shame - this evocative, gripping portrait of Turkey
recentres our understanding of the past and makes sense of one of
Europe's most bewildering yet intriguing neighbours. 'A wonderful
writer' Robert Macfarlane
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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