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OverviewHow 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ece TemelkuranPublisher: Canongate Books Imprint: Canongate Canons Edition: Main - Canons Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.212kg ISBN: 9781837263073ISBN 10: 1837263078 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 10 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsHighly readable and vibrates with outrage * * The Times * * A brilliant analysis of how democracy can be starved to death. It's one of the most important books anyone could read at the moment, when public institutions are slowly being corrupted wherever we look -- PHILIP PULLMAN This is essential -- MARGARET ATWOOD The burning topic of today: populism. Vivid, visionary, terrifyingly familiar, this book is essential reading for everyone on planet Earth -- ANDREW SEAN GREER This is a keenly observed and passionately written book. Read it or be prepared to lose your country -- RABIH ALAMEDDINE A stunning, sane and intimate chronicle of a world gone nuts. An urgent whisper in our ears about our modern dictators and their collaborators -- MOHAMMED HANIF 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 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 Author InformationEce Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist, a political thinker and a public speaker whose work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Le Monde, La Stampa, New Statesman and Der Spiegel, among several international media outlets. 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 for her book Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed book How to Lose a Country and her most recent book, Together, was shortlisted for the Terzani Award in Italy. She has twice been recognised as Turkey's most read political columnist, and twice rated as one of the ten most influential people on social media (with nearly three million followers). ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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