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Dinner of Herbs: Village Life in 1960s Turkey
Carla Grissman
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Paperback. Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJPK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 146. .
Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year in the '60s living in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. The hospitality, the friendship and the way in which the inhabitants of Uzak Koy accepted her into their community left a deep impression, and were remembered and treasured in a private memoir. Not for some forty years was it published, and yet it is one of the most honest, clear-sighted and affectionate portraits of rural Turkey, testimony to Proverbs 15:17, 'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than feasting on a fattened ... Read more
Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year in the '60s living in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. The hospitality, the friendship and the way in which the inhabitants of Uzak Koy accepted her into their community left a deep impression, and were remembered and treasured in a private memoir. Not for some forty years was it published, and yet it is one of the most honest, clear-sighted and affectionate portraits of rural Turkey, testimony to Proverbs 15:17, 'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than feasting on a fattened ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780600437
SKU
V9781780600437
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