How to Lose a Country
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How to Lose a Country by Ece Temelkuran
This is essential Margaret Atwood on Twitter She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this Philip Pullman Vibrates with outrage The Times‘Highly readable and vibrates with outrage’ The Times, Hannah Lucinda Smith
‘Temelkuran, a treasure of a novelist, turns a nonfiction eye to the burning topic of today: populismVivid, visionary, terrifyingly familiar, How To Lose A Country is essential reading for everyone on planet Earth’
Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less
‘May be the most important political book you read in 2019 … Her tone is brave, deeply personal, witty, honest and melancholic in its delivery, with the writer’s style leaning more toward emotional humanism than cold-blooded rational political science’ The Globe and Mail
‘This is a keenly observed and passionately written book. Read it or be prepared to lose your country’
Rabih Alameddine
'The opponents of authoritarian populist and nationalist regimes have often failed to foresee or effectively resist their rise until it was too late. This highly informed and original book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the forces that are convulsing our world' Patrick Cockburn, author of Rise of the Islamic State
‘Never was a book so necessary and urgent. A brilliant expose of the rise of right wing populism and how we challenge it’ Michael (Lord) Cashman
‘Ece Temelkuran is a passionate authentic voice whose fearless stand against authoritarian incursion is inspiring. She writes with an urgent conviction that has never been more important than now’ Tina Brown
‘An important, current and, most importantly, very readable book about the populist playbook and how it threatens to engulf us all’ Rick O’Shea
'A stunning, sane and intimate chronicle of a world gone nuts. An urgent whisper in our ears about our modern dictators and their collaborators. Ece has looked them in the eye, and is now telling us we need talk' Mohammed Hanif
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator, whose journalism has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel. She won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow on Knots, and the Ambassador of New Europe Award. She has been twice recognised as Turkey’s most-read political columnist, and twice rated as one of the ten most influential people in social media (with three million twitter followers).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780008294014 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008294011 |
| Title | How to Lose a Country |
| Author | Ece Temelkuran |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2019-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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