Ece Temelkuran for Nation of Strangers

'To read [Nation of Strangers] is "to stiffen the sinews"' MICHAEL MORPURGO

'A new book from Ece Temelkuran is a new way of understanding the world' BRIAN ENO

'Ece Temelkuran is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing.

Now, as oppression spreads and temperatures rise—as we face competing crises and learn, again and again, that no institution is so concrete it can't turn to dust, and no home is too strong to be destroyed—Ece Temelkuran has written Nation of Strangers: a series of letters from one stranger to another.

Politically attuned and deeply personal, this extraordinary, heartening correspondence is a gift to treasure in uncertain times. As poetic as it is precise, it is a book that shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.

Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer, political thinker and public speaker whose work has been published worldwide. Her novels, Women Who Blow on Knots and The Time of Mute Swans, have been published in several languages and adapted to the stage. After she left her Turkey, she began writing in English, and her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. She is currently based in Berlin.