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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century

Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century


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Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer?

Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a political Cassandra, warning those convinced it couldn't happen in their country that fascism is coming.

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 - she 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 for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world. It shows how, as we all become strangers, our home will depend on the strength we find with one another.



About the Author :
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. Temelkuran's two political essays, Deep Mountain: Across the Armenian-Turkish Divide and Turkey: The Insane and Melancholy, explore the connection between the personal and political. After she left her country in 2016, Temelkuran began writing in English. Her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country, received international praise. Her second, Together, offers 'a way out from the political and moral insanity' that is ushered by the global rise of fascism. Ece Temelkuran has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb. She is currently based in Berlin and is on the advisory board of Progressive International and DemocracyNext.

ecetemelkuran.net | @ETemelkuran | @ece.temelkuran



Review :
A new book from Ece Temelkuran is a new way of understanding the world. She is lucid, honest and often wryly funny about where we are now, and who we are becoming. And Nation of Strangers is her most ambitious and dazzling book yet One of the finest books I've ever read on what it means to be cast out, to be unhomed. Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written Nation of Strangers is perhaps the most urgent and necessary book of our times, for our times. To read it is "to stiffen the sinews" Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt Crackling with intelligence, insight and generosity Turkish author Ece Temelkuran writes powerfully. Fans of Elif Shafak's non-fiction and Sally Hayden's writing will find a lot to love here Essential reading for this month, this year, this era Nation of Strangers is essential reading - a bold reminder, a stern warning, a soft prayer and courageous song. Without a doubt, it is my number one favourite book of these times . . . a critically honest observation of us, of you and me in the here and now, our fragile notion of home, the homes we leave behind, the home we carry with us. I feel like she is writing to me personally, teaching me to be stronger and much more resilient Reading Ece Temelkuran's book Nation of Strangers was like hearing from a friend. I felt deeply comforted by her writing and her extraordinary ability to tap into the innate desire in all of us to have somewhere to call home Urgent, compassionate and fiercely intelligent, this book is a powerful examination of belonging in an age of exile, nationalism and fracture . . . Clear-eyed yet hopeful, this is a galvanising book that speaks directly to our present moment


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781837262021
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
  • Width: 141 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1837262020
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 335 gr


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