{"product_id":"the-lion-and-the-nightingale-a-journey-through-modern-turkey-9781350436770","title":"The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTurkey is a land torn between East and West, between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. \u003c\/b\u003eAfter the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genç travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of Anatolia, one of the world's oldest civilizations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing new material on the 2023 elections, \u003ci\u003e The Lion and the Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e presents the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale. Weaving together a mixture of memoir, interview and his own autobiography, Genç takes the reader on a contemporary journey through the contradictory soul of the Turkish nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaya Genç\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Salon, Guernica Magazine, Sight \u0026amp; Sound, The Millions, The White Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTIME Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eL Avventura\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature and is the Istanbul correspondent of \u003ci\u003eThe LA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e as well as a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. He has written a history of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press, and is the author of\u003ci\u003e Under the Shadow \u003c\/i\u003e(I.B.Tauris, 2017), an account of the Gezi Park uprisings and the coup attempt of December, 2016. He is a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50563707535634,"sku":"9781350436770","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ccc2329-3909-49df-b93d-fb35dce78521.jpg?v=1731869868","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lion-and-the-nightingale-a-journey-through-modern-turkey-9781350436770","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}