{"product_id":"the-endless-country-sami-kent-9781529099263","title":"The Endless Country","description":"'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Mishal Husain\n'A rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived experience . . . The book is alive on every page' – Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of Others\nThe Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man.\nIt is not about Erdogan or Atatürk, the two towering Presidents who have book-ended that history, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead Sami Kent’s book 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.\nFrom tiny weightlifters to the world’s biggest prison, from a failed socialist commune to a wildly successful orchid ice cream, the book is a tribute to the sheer bewildering diversity of Turkey’s past: its people, their ideas and their struggles.\n'This is surely how history should be told – human, fun, alive' – The Telegraph","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50299542208800,"sku":"9781529099263","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781529099263.jpg?v=1781282902","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-endless-country-sami-kent-9781529099263","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}