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To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
As he walks the four miles of Istanbul’s defensive walls Alexander Christie-Miller records his encounters with the communities living along them. As he traces a country that has been transformed under the leadership of Erdogan and reflects on its history, he builds a portrait of a city ‘where the past looms like a shrouded mountaintop, the future bears down like an avalanche’. Slightly off-mint.
416 pages, Hardcover
Published February 15, 2024
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November 16, 2024
Wonderful book that blends the recent and distant past of the city with its inhabitants, both past and present. It’s also a brave book in that it does not sugar coat or overlook the controversial issues.
There are also some hidden gems that would have been worth some further exploration such as Zehra, the “slight slight young woman with the dark eyes and the ROMAN NOSE” who “had grown up in the black sea province of Trabzon”. Maybe something to explore in a follow up book about Trabzon?
There are also some hidden gems that would have been worth some further exploration such as Zehra, the “slight slight young woman with the dark eyes and the ROMAN NOSE” who “had grown up in the black sea province of Trabzon”. Maybe something to explore in a follow up book about Trabzon?
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