The Endless Country
“The Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past and present – the nation the author's father left decades before and the one he returns to as a young man.
However, Sami Kent's exhilarating debut is not only about Erdoğan or Atatürk, the two towering presidents who have book ended the country's last hundred years, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead The Endless Country goes deep beyond them, revealing a history as rich, layered and absurd as his family’s favourite dessert, künefe: a shredded wheat pastry with a core of melted cheese, a topping of pistachios, and a drowning of syrup.
From tiny weightlifters to the world’s biggest prison, from a failed socialist commune to a surprisingly successful orchid ice cream, Sami Kent's portrait of Turkey is both a private and public history and also, truly, it is the wild and unpredictable story of modernity itself.”
The book is to be published by Picador in June 2024. You can order it here.
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