“The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years”

Sami Kent (MSc African Studies, 2014) has published his debut novel: The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years.

Reviewed in both The Telegraph and The Guardian, Sami’s novel has been hailed as a ‘a rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived experience . . . The book is alive on every page’ (Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of Others).

Sami tells the story of the first 100 years of Turkey’s history – since the founding of the republic – through his own story of returning to his father’s land. Elcin Poyrazlar in The Guardian remarks that ‘by talking to people and visiting places involved with each decade of that century, Kent brings the past alive’. The book is available at all major book retailers.