11th February, 7:30pm - Ece Temelkuran, Nation of Strangers, in conversation with Rosie Goldmsith

Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP

As the number of refugees and exiles in the world grows, Turkish novelist and political thinker Ece Temelkuran examines what home means in the modern world. We'll be welcoming her to Backstory to discuss her latest book, Nation of Strangers, in conversation with award-winning journalist Rosie Goldsmith.

About the book:

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.

Tickets Available:

Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.)

Ticket & book  (RRP £18.99) - £27 (To collect on the night.)