Together - (Canons) by Ece Temelkuran (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.

In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the political action that the twenty-first century demands.

Above all, this book will challenge you to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with, to turn away from an uncaring world and instead build a new one with compassion.

Review Quotes

"Together is a call for us to abandon some of the hardening that we've undertaken as a society [ . . . ]. I think Ece is an extraordinary writer, she has a unique ability to put our current political conflicts into a global context, and her faith in grassroots action is redemptive"--KATHERINE MAY

"Her genius is to dismantle the power with unexpected irony, to bring you inside the understanding of the present by giving you a scalpel and a flower. Read this book: you will bleed and you will feel protected at the same time. It's the magic of Ece Temelkuran"--ROBERTO SAVIANO

"I am giving Temelkuran's Together to everyone I know. So clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous! An obligatory book for any human on earth today"--ANDREW SEAN GREER

"If you only read one book this year, then this must be it"--SARAH WINMAN

"In this elegant, beautifully written book, [Temelkuran] offers something like an ethics of how to live in this world"--MICHAEL HARDT

"Justly famous as an anatomist of so much that is wrong in the modern world, Ece Temelkuran here turns her attention to what is right - and it's wonderful to discover that her arguments are not just as clear-sighted, but just as convincing"--JONATHAN COE

"Suffering a sorrow that we can overcome. Longing for a freedom that we don't yet have. For as long as I can remember, these have been the sensations Beethoven's music planted into my soul. More recently, reading Ece Temelkuran's delightful Together gave me the same sensations"--YANIS VAROUFAKIS

"Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise. Together lifted my heart and my spirits and is a book for everybody of any age"--BRIAN ENO

"Temelkuran writes gorgeously about the human situations - from Turkey to Croatia - that demand new thinking. The insights of this book, whose tone is a potent mix of fierce urgency but unyielding calmness, make Together an important contribution to how politics will evolve"-- "Irish Times"

About the Author

Ece 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).

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