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Troubled Water - A Journey Around the Black Sea (Hardcover)
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Troubled Water - A Journey Around the Black Sea (Hardcover)
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Fringing the Black Sea are a kaleidoscope of countries, some
centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. Through the stories of the people he meets there,
Jens Muhling seeks to paint a picture of this cauldron of cultures
and to understand the present against a backdrop of change
stretching back to the arrival of Ancient Greek settlers and
beyond. A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust
of those he meets, Muhling's cast of characters, as diverse as the
stories he hears, is ready to tell him their complex,
contradictory, often fantastical tales, full of grief and legend.
He meets descendants of the so-called Pontic Greeks, whom Stalin
deported to Central Asia and who have now returned; Circassians,
known from Tolstoy's Caucasus stories, who fled to Syria a century
ago and whose great-great-grandchildren, now displaced, have
returned to Abkhazia; and members of ethnic minorities: the
Georgian Mingrelians, Turkish Lazis, or Bulgarian Muslims expelled
to Turkey in the summer of 1989. Not to mention the molluscs and
other species that have unsettled the delicate ecological balance
of this unique body of water. Nowhere does the uneasy alliance of
tradition and modernity seem starker, and there is no better writer
to capture the diverse humanity of those who live there.
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