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Item Details
| Title:
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THE TIME OF MUTE SWANS
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Ece Temelkuran, Kenneth Dakan (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1628728140 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781628728149 |
| Publisher: |
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 November, 2017 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
This timely, bestselling novel about a military coup in Turkey, told through the eyes of two children, resonates deeply with events there today. |
| Synopsis: |
A best-selling novel (in Turkey) about a military coup witnessed through the eyes of children, whose innocence magnifies and intensifies the events.Published in Turkey in 2015, this novel both anticipated last summer's attempted coup and the regime's counter-coup and helps explain the dynamic playing out today.Rights sold in 5 territories: WE, Germany, Denmark, Armenia, Arabic.The author is one of Turkey's best-known writers and political commentators. An investigative journalist who was forced from her job from reporting on topics censored by the regime, she has won international recognition for her work. She was a visiting fellow at Oxford and delivered a Freedom Lecture as a guest of Amnesty International. At the invitation of PEN (England), she was writer in residence at the Free World Center. She has media contacts in the US (Vice, Buzzfeed, New York Times, Guardian, and The New Yorker). She published an op-ed in the New York Times just before the coup attempt and.another in the Guardian after Donald Trump's election on the danger of alternative facts: "Truth Is a Lost Game in Turkey. Don't Let the Same Thing Happen to You."Ece Temelkuran has 2.42 million followers on Twitter and 596,000 likes on Facebook.She was a featured panelist on the opening day of the eighth annual Women in the World summit,in New York City, April 5-7, in the panel "Alternative Facts: Journalists Under Siege." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Arcade Publishing |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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