Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

by Christopher de Bellaigue

Book Overview

"A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk

In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for The New York Review of Books, in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians from Turkey in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman Empire. Upon publication, the Review was besieged with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143118846
• ISBN13: 9780143118848
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.6" x 5.5"