From Life Itself - Suzy Hansen

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Résumé :

Rich and complex . . . [A] beautifully observant book. -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review

A dizzying tour de force . . . From Life Itself leaves the reader with a sense of wonder. -Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot

One neighborhood in Istanbul: a window on a city, country, region, and world in a state of upheaval.

Karagu?mru?k, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for petty thieves, cheap apartment blocks, and an influx of Syrian refugees. It's here that Suzy Hansen went looking for the truth behind the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erd?an's authoritarian turn, a catastrophic regional war, and an accelerating geopolitical crisis. She asks: Was Turkey a harbinger of what would soon arise in other countries, the resurgence of authoritarianism? Or do the lives in this neighborhood, and the transformations of Erd?an's Turkey, reveal a more complex story?

During a decade spent reporting from Karagu?mru?k, Hansen discovered the neighborhood's secrets and got to know some of its people: Ismail, the longtime muhtar, or neighborhood councilman...

Biographie:
Suzy Hansen lived in Istanbul for more than a decade, where she was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and many other publications. Her first book, Notes on a Foreign Country, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and the winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award. She has taught writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Bard College....

Sommaire:

Rich and complex . . . [A] beautifully observant book. -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review

A dizzying tour de force . . . From Life Itself leaves the reader with a sense of wonder. -Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot

One neighborhood in Istanbul: a window on a city, country, region, and world in a state of upheaval.

Karagu?mru?k, an Istanbul neighborhood once dominated by Ottoman-era homes, is now known for petty thieves, cheap apartment blocks, and an influx of Syrian refugees. It's here that Suzy Hansen went looking for the truth behind the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erd?an's authoritarian turn, a catastrophic regional war, and an accelerating geopolitical crisis. She asks: Was Turkey a harbinger of what would soon arise in other countries, the resurgence of authoritarianism? Or do the lives in this neighborhood, and the transformations of Erd?an's Turkey, reveal a more complex story?

During a decade spent reporting from Karagu?mru?k, Hansen discovered the neighborhood's secrets and got to know some of its people: Ismail, the longtime muhtar, or neighborhood councilman...