Together

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Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise. Together lifted my heart and my spirits and is a book for everybody of any age -- BRIAN ENO Together is a call for us to abandon some of the hardening that we've undertaken as a society [ . . . ]. I think Ece is an extraordinary writer, she has a unique ability to put our current political conflicts into a global context, and her faith in grassroots action is redemptive -- KATHERINE MAY Her genius is to dismantle the power with unexpected irony, to bring you inside the understanding of the present by giving you a scalpel and a flower. Read this book: you will bleed and you will feel protected at the same time. It's the magic of Ece Temelkuran -- ROBERTO SAVIANO If you only read one book this year, then this must be it -- SARAH WINMAN Suffering a sorrow that we can overcome. Longing for a freedom that we don't yet have. For as long as I can remember, these have been the sensations Beethoven's music planted into my soul. More recently, reading Ece Temelkuran's delightful Together gave me the same sensations -- YANIS VAROUFAKIS Temelkuran writes gorgeously about the human situations - from Turkey to Croatia - that demand new thinking. The insights of this book, whose tone is a potent mix of fierce urgency but unyielding calmness, make Together an important contribution to how politics will evolve * * Irish Times * * I am giving Temelkuran's Together to everyone I know. So clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous! An obligatory book for any human on earth today -- ANDREW SEAN GREER In this elegant, beautifully written book, [Temelkuran] offers something like an ethics of how to live in this world -- MICHAEL HARDT Justly famous as an anatomist of so much that is wrong in the modern world, Ece Temelkuran here turns her attention to what is right - and it's wonderful to discover that her arguments are not just as clear-sighted, but just as convincing -- JONATHAN COE