Nation of Strangers

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 -- BRIAN ENO
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 -- OMAR EL AKKAD
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" -- MICHAEL MORPURGO
Ece Temelkuran, with her beautiful, elegiac new book on becoming "unhomed", is in serious danger of becoming the new Hannah Arendt -- YANIS VAROUFAKIS
Crackling with intelligence, insight and generosity -- KAMILA SHAMSIE
Essential reading for this month, this year, this era -- CAROLINE SANDERSON, , 'Non-Fiction Book of the Month' * * Bookseller * *
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 -- SALENA GODDEN
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 -- DENISE GOUGH
Powerful, poetic and deeply personal, Nation of Strangers is both a brilliant exploration of the meaning of home and an urgent call for a new politics of togetherness. An unforgettable book that offers vital imaginative vision and vocabulary to traverse the turbulence of our times -- ROMAN KRZNARIC
Homelessness, both literal and spiritual, is increasingly the contemporary human condition, and in Nation of Strangers, Ece Temelkuran gives it the sustained and close attention it deserves. She not only elegantly and movingly diagnoses our shared plight; she describes the wise and viable solutions we so desperately need. No one baffled and estranged by our age's relentless shocks can afford to miss this book -- PANKAJ MISHRA