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Along the Trenches
A Journey through Eastern Europe to Isfahan1. Aufl.
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16,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wiley |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 11.11.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781509535583 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 400 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know today. In September 2016 the German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to discover this land and to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne through eastern Germany to the Baltics, and from there south to the Caucasus and to Isfahan in Iran, the home of his parents. </p> <p>This beautifully written travel diary, enlivened by conversations with the people Kermani meets along the way, brings to life the tragic history of these troubled lands and shows how this history leaves its traces in the present. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with current affairs and with the events that have shaped, and continue to shape, the world in which we live today.</p>
Contents<br /> Cologne<br /> First Day: Schwerin<br /> Second Day: From Berlin to Wroc aw<br /> Third Day: Auschwitz<br /> Fourth Day: Cracow<br /> Fifth Day: From Cracow to Warsaw<br /> Sixth Day: Warsaw<br /> Seventh Day: Warsaw<br /> Eighth Day: From Warsaw to Masuria<br /> Ninth Day: Kaunas<br /> Tenth Day: Vilnius and Vicinity<br /> Eleventh Day: Via Paneriai to Minsk<br /> Twelfth Day: Minsk and Khatyn<br /> Thirteenth Day: Into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone<br /> Fourteenth Day: Kurapaty and Minsk<br /> Fifteenth Day: Into the Exclusion Zone East of Krasnapolle<br /> Sixteenth Day: From Minsk to Kiev<br /> Seventeenth Day: Kiev<br /> Eighteenth Day: From Kiev to Dnipro <br /> Nineteenth Day: To the Front in Donbas<br /> Twentieth Day: Via Mariupol to the Black Sea<br /> Twenty-first Day: Along the Black Sea to Odessa<br /> Twenty-second Day: Odessa<br /> Twenty-third Day: Leaving Odessa by Air<br /> Twenty-fourth Day: Via Moscow to Simferopol<br /> Twenty-fifth Day: Via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol<br /> Twenty-sixth Day: Along the Crimean Coast<br /> Twenty-seventh Day: From Crimea to the Russian Mainland<br /> Twenty-eighth Day: To Krasnodar<br /> Twenty-ninth Day: From Krasnodar to Grozny<br /> Thirtieth Day: Grozny<br /> Thirty-first Day: In the Chechen Mountains<br /> Thirty-second Day: From Grozny to Tbilisi<br /> Thirty-third Day: Tbilisi<br /> Thirty-fourth Day: Tbilisi<br /> Thirty-fifth Day: To Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian Cease-fire Line<br /> Thirty-sixth Day: From Tbilisi to Kakheti<br /> Thirty-seventh Day: From Kakheti to Azerbaijan<br /> Thirty-eighth Day: Along the Azeri-Armenian Cease-fire Line<br /> Thirty-ninth Day: By Night Train to Baku<br /> Fortieth Day: Baku<br /> Forty-first Day: Baku and Qobustan<br /> Forty-second Day: Leaving Baku by Air<br /> Forty-third Day: Yerevan<br /> Forty-fourth Day: Yerevan<br /> Forty-fifth Day: To Lake Sevan and On to Nagorno-Karabakh<br /> Forty-sixth Day: Through Nagorno-Karabakh<br /> Forty-seventh Day: To the Armenian-Azeri Cease-fire Line and On to Iran<br /> Forty-eighth Day: Via Jolfa to Tabriz<br /> Forty-ninth Day: Via Ahmadabad to Alamut Castle<br /> Fiftieth Day: To the Caspian Sea and On to Tehran<br /> Fifty-first Day: Tehran<br /> Fifty-second Day: Tehran<br /> Fifty-third Day: Tehran<br /> Fifty-fourth Day: Flying Out of Tehran<br /> With Family in Isfahan<br /> The Journey Begins<br /> Acknowledgements<br /> Bibliography
<p>"<i>Along the Trenches</i> is an important and timely book, reminding us of the complex cultural and communal currents that have always flowed from Isfahan to Cologne and beyond, enriching along the way the lives of everyone they touch."<br />—<b>John Burnside, University of St Andrews</b></p> <p>"A book so moving and so powerful that it's worth taking 54 days over it, so that each day you can immerse yourself in a new world."<br />—<b>Katja Weise, NDR Kultur</b></p> <p>"Kermani has succeeded in writing a stirring plea for Europe, one which confirms his place among the ranks of Germany's most influential intellectuals."<br />—<b>Rainer Hermann, <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i></b></p> <p><i>"</i>A Herodotus for our times."<br />—<b>Philipp Holstein, <i>Rheinische Post</i></b></p> <p>"A breathtaking travel diary and a passionate plea for the diversity of cultures, for Europe and the beauty of stories."<br />—<i><b>Bayrischer Rundfunk</b></i></p> <p>"On almost every page there is something for the reader to think about, to learn, to marvel at."<br />—<b><i>Tages-Anzeiger</i></b></p> <p>"Navid Kermani ... is the best kind of scholar: one who writes with a touch as elegant as it is light."<br /><i>—<b>Catholic Herald</b></i></p> <p>"... revealing and thought-provoking...."<br />—<b><i>Financial Times</i></b></p>
<b>Navid Kermani</b> is a writer and scholar who lives in Cologne, Germany. He has received numerous accolades for his literary and academic work, including the 2015 Peace Prize of the German Publishers’ Association, Germany’s most prestigious cultural award.
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