Ece Temelkuran – författare & böcker

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Nation of Strangers

Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

148 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONDear stranger . . . Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homelessand the economically excluded is growing. Now, Ece Temelkuran, who has for years been a political Cassandra, warning the West about the rise of fascism,has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another. It is a book for anyone who feelsalienated by an ever-more monstrous world, and a roadmap for an uncertain future.

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Främlingsnationen: Ett hem för de hemfördrivna

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Kartonnage, Svenska, 2026

249 kr

Kära främling. Är du hemma? Känner du dig hemma? Hur länge till?

Över hela världen ökar antalet flyktingar och landsförvisade, fördrivna och egendomslösa, politiskt hemlösa och ekonomiskt utestängda. När fler och fler fördrivs från sina hem föds allt större behov av en ny tillhörighet och gemenskap. Det har gått tio år sedan författaren Ece Temelkuran lämnade sitt hemland Turkiet. Allt sedan dess har hon verkat som en politisk Kassandra och i böcker och samtal varnat för fascismen och hur enkelt den kan smyga sig på och få grepp, även där folk tror det vara en fullkomlig omöjlighet. År 2019 kom boken How to loose a country ut i vilken hon beskriver hur lätt en demokrati kan slå över i diktatur. Nu står vi inför en mängd konkurrerande kriser och för varje dag som går blir det allt tydligare att ingen institution är så solid att den inte kan förvandlas till stoft, att inget hem är så starkt att det inte kan förstöras.

Ece Temelkurans nya bok Främlingsnationen – Ett hem för de hemfördrivna är en personlig och klarsynt text där hon i brevform skriver från en främling till en annan om hemlöshetens villkor. Det är hjärtskärande, emellanåt ironiskt skämtsamt, alltid politiskt knivskarpt. Med värme och djup omvärderar Temelkuran begrepp som exil, migration och hem och visar på möjligheten att återuppbygga ett hem i främlingskapets gemenskap.

"Temelkuran bjuder in läsaren i de brev hon skriver från det skälvande nuet. (...) Främlingsnationen är en gripande bok om en ödesdiger framtid som inte lämnar någon oberörd, i en fantastisk översättning av Nika Abiri som fångat det lyriska i språket samtidigt som den dova, skarpa tonen för oss framåt. Helhetsbetyg: 5 (av 5)" BTJ, Lovisa Granath Brodin

"en kraftfullt egensinnig prosa till slut fått ett hem på svenska (...) Att läsa Främlingsnationen är som att hålla en karta upp och ner, på ren trots. Och att inse vad som står på spel." Dagens Nyheter

Together

A Manifesto Against a Heartless World

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Häftad, Engelska, 2025

126 kr

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Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the political action that the twenty-first century demands.Above all, this book will challenge you to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with, to turn away from an uncaring world and instead build a new one with compassion.

How to Lose a Country

The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism

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Häftad, Engelska, 2024

137 kr

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How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep.Award-winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South America, in order to arm the reader with the tools to recognise it and take action.Weaving memoir, history and clear-sighted argument, Temelkuran proposes alternative answers to the pressing - and too often paralysing - political questions of our time. How to Lose a Country is an exploration of the insidious ideas at the core of these movements and an urgent, eloquent defence of democracy. This 2024 edition includes a new foreword by the author.

Nation of Strangers

Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

197 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker' Omar El Akkad'Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet' Brian Eno'Perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times' Michael MorpurgoDear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer? Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn't happen in their country that fascism is coming.Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise - as we face competing crises and learn, again and again, that no institution is so concrete it can't turn to dust, and no home is too strong to be destroyed - she has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another. Politically attuned and deeply personal, this extraordinary, heartening correspondence is a gift to treasure in uncertain times. As poetic as it is precise, it is a book for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world. It shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.

Women Who Blow on Knots

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Häftad, Engelska, 2023

146 kr

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Three young women and the extraordinary Madam Lilla embark on a road trip from Tunisia to Lebanon as the Arab Spring breaks around them. The novel's title is taken from a sura in the Koran that warns to beware of those 'women who blow on knots' because they do witchcraft.The women all set out for different reasons but each holds a secret that drives them forward. It is only as they travel further across the desert that Madam Lilla's dark intentions become clear and their quest begins hurtling towards an unimaginable end.Unique and controversial in its country of origin for its political rhetoric and atypical Muslim female characters, Ece Temelkuran weaves an empowering tale that challenges us to ponder not only the social questions of politics, religion and women in the Middle East, but also the universal bonds of sister- and motherhood.

Turkey

The Insane and the Melancholy

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Häftad, Engelska, 2022

229 kr

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Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government – for which she lost her job as a journalist – Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression.The result is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles, hopes and tragedies which make Turkey what it is today. Lamenting the commercialisation and authoritarianism which increasingly characterises Turkish society, Temelkuran sees hope in the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the electoral breakthrough of the progressive HDP party in 2015 and in the simple kindness of ordinary people.Much more than either straightforward history or memoir, Turkey: the Insane the Melancholy is like sitting with a friendly stranger who, over raki or coffee, reveals the secrets of this rich and complex country – the historic "bridge" between east and west.

Time of Mute Swans

A Novel

AvEce Temelkuran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

239 kr

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This timely, bestselling novel about a military coup in Turkey, told through the eyes of two children, resonates deeply with events there today.Ankara, the capital city in the heart of Turkey at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, East and West, is a hotspot in the Cold War, torn between communism and conservatism, Western freedoms and traditional ways, with an army fearful of democracy and a government that employs thugs and torture to enforce law and order. In the summer of 1980, tensions are building. Homes of the poor are being burnt down. Armed revolutionaries on college campuses battle right-wings militias in the city's neighborhoods. The lines between good and bad, right and wrong, and beautiful and ugly are blurred by shed blood. Two children, one from a family living in misery and one well-off, form an alliance amid the turmoil. Through their senses, the cityscape unfolds its wonders, its rich smells and colors, as they try to make sense of the events swirling around them. And they hatch a plan. For the first time in generations, mute swans have migrated from Russia to the Black Sea and to a park at the center of Ankara. For the generals, they are an affirmation, and their wings must be broken so they can't fly away. But if the children can save one swan, won't they have saved the freedom of all?

Turkey

The Insane and the Melancholy

AvEce Temelkuran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

1 258 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government – for which she lost her job as a journalist – Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression.The result is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles, hopes and tragedies which make Turkey what it is today. Lamenting the commercialisation and authoritarianism which increasingly characterises Turkish society, Temelkuran sees hope in the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the electoral breakthrough of the progressive HDP party in 2015 and in the simple kindness of ordinary people.Much more than either straightforward history or memoir, Turkey: the Insane the Melancholy is like sitting with a friendly stranger who, over raki or coffee, reveals the secrets of this rich and complex country – the historic "bridge" between east and west.