The NERVE presents Ece Temelkuran in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr

Ece Temelkuran in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr in Manchester

The Turkish writer and political thinker Ece Temelkuran in conversation with Nerve co-founder Carole Cadwalladr. Ece, the author of How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism will talk about her new book Nation of Strangers - described as being “for anyone who feels alienated by an ever more monstrous world.”

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 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—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.

Described by Brian Eno as "Her most ambitious and dazzling book yet"

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 Turkey, she began writing in English, and her first book in this language, How to Lose a Country:The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism, received international praise. She has lived in Beirut, Tunis, Oxford, Paris and Zagreb and is currently based in Berlin.

Carole Cadwalladr is an investigative journalist, a TEDtalker, a press freedom advocate, scourge of extreme Brexiteers and a co-founder of THE NERVE.

The Nerve is a fearless, female-founded media title set up by a collective of five former Guardian and Observer journalists who believe that the UK needs more truly independent journalism.

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