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Papadakis Y - Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide - 9781850434283 - V9781850434283
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Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide

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Description for Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide Hardcover. On a mission to explore the common humanity of Cyprus and Turkey and understand what divides them, Papadakis travels to Turkey, returning with fresh insights. This book records his journey into the Dead Zone, and into the realms of memory and history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVC; GTJ; HBJD; JFSL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 582.
In the space of a generation, Cyprus - the island of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love - has experienced an anti-colonial struggle, post-colonial chaos, internecine fighting and hatred, civil war, invasion, population displacements and physical partition. The narrative of Cyprus' recent history has created numerous attitudes and prejudices which run deep but which have never before been explored on a human level. Now for the first time Yiannis Papadakis, firmly planted in the Greek Cypriot world, sets out to discover 'The Other' - the much maligned Turks. Papadakis decided with some trepidation to travek to Constantinople (to his Greek ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850434283
SKU
V9781850434283
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

Reviews for Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide
'Packed with historical information. It also contains moving personal testimonies from the kind of ordinary people whose voices are not usually heard above the drum beating din of history. What makes it really memorable though, is its wry humour.' - Irish Times 'He [Papadakis] can also be seen as shedding new light on old wounds - and doing ... Read more

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