Troubled Water
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Troubled Water
A Journey Around the Black Sea
Haus Publishing
ISBN: 9781914982019
Pub:
2023 July 29
$18.95 USD
Breve Descripción
Bordeando el Mar Negro hay una gran variedad de países, algunos con siglos de antigüedad y otros que surgieron solo después del colapso de la Unión Soviética. Jens Mühling viaja a través de esta región, contando las historias de las personas que encuentra en el camino para pintar una imagen de la mezcla de culturas que se encuentran aquí y comprender el presente frente a una historia que se remonta a la llegada de los antiguos colonos griegos y más allá.
Breve descrição
Na fronteira com o Mar Negro há uma grande variedade de países, alguns centenários e outros que surgiram somente após o colapso da União Soviética. Jens Mühling viaja por esta região, contando as histórias das pessoas que encontra ao longo do caminho para pintar um quadro da mistura de culturas encontradas aqui e entender o presente versus uma história que remonta à chegada dos antigos. Colonos gregos e além.
Full description
A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there.
Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the stories of the people he meets along the way in order to paint a picture of the mix of cultures found here and to understand the present against a history stretching back to the arrival of Ancient Greek settlers and beyond.
A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust of those he meets, Mühling brings together a cast of characters as diverse as the stories he hears, all of whom are willing to tell him their complex, contradictory, and often fantastical tales full of grief and legend. He meets descendants of the so-called Pontic Greeks, whom Stalin deported to Central Asia and who have now returned; Circassians who fled to Syria a century ago and whose great-great-grandchildren have returned to Abkhazia; and members of ethnic minorities like the Georgian Mingrelians or Bulgarian Muslims, expelled to Turkey in the summer of 1989. Mühling captures the region’s uneasy alliance of tradition and modernity and the diverse humanity of those who live there.
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