2013 · Essays · 4th printing
The Silent Map
Essays on the vanishing crafts of Anatolia
Nineteen essays distilled from eleven years of reporters’ notebooks.
Details
- Author
- Nehir Yalın
- Genre
- Essays
- Publisher
- Denizce Yayınları
- First published
- 2013
- pages
- 208
- ISBN
- 978-625-0000-05-0
- printing
- 4th printing
- Formats
- Paperback · E-book
About the book
Boat caulkers, felt makers, saddlers, coppersmiths, tightrope walkers and the last letter writer. Drawn from the notebooks Yalın kept during her years as a reporter, these essays argue that when a craft disappears, what is lost is a language.
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From the book
p. 17 Every craft has its own silence; the master doesn’t speak, the hands do.
In the press
A reporter’s door into literature.
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