Dinner of Herbs: Village Life in 1960s Turkey

By Carla Grissmann

Carla Grissman, an American whose cosmopolitan life had already seen her living in Morocco, Paris and Jerusalem, spent the better part of a year in the '60s living in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 kilometres east of Ankara. The hospitality, the friendship and the way in which the inhabitants of Uzak K y accepted her into their community left a deep impression, and were remembered and trea- sured 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 ox where hatred also dwells'.

With a biographical portrait by John Hopkins

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780600437
• ISBN13: 9781780600437
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"