This Is Not Civilization - Hardcover

Rosenberg, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618386017 ISBN 13: 9780618386017

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

Synopsis

Jeff Hartig, an American Peace Corps volunteer, and Anarbek Tashtanaliev, the owner of a Soviet cheese factory, are just a few of the disaffected characters who end up in Turkey on the eve of the 1999 earthquake, hoping to find something they cannot get at home. A first novel.

About this title

Review:

So how does first novelist Rosenberg manage to pull it off so beautifully?... A wonderful work; highly recommended. -- Library Journal, starred review 4/1/04, chosen as an LJ Best Debut (10/1/04)

[An] ambitious and enchanting debut novel that sings...Filled with knowing, deadpan humor...[a] generous, perceptive vision. -- The Miami Herald, June 13, 2004 (one of the

brimming...a brave adventure into the heart of a new world...often hilarious...sparkling -- Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 11, 2004

his descriptions are so well-rendered...journalistic, humane and heart-wrenching. Rosenberg makes the reader care for his characters. -- Christopher Buckley in The New York Times Book Review, June 6, 2004

what a generous, big-hearted book this is...a gentle rousing by someone who understands the complicated rewards of caring. -- The Christian Science Monitor, June 15, 2004

About the Author:

Robert Rosenberg recently finished his M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he held Maytag and Teaching-Writing fellowships. Previously he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in newly independent Kyrgyzstan. He lived there for two years, and afterward the Peace Corps awarded him a fellowship to teach on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona while he completed his master’s in education. He lived in Cibecue, a small Apache village, and as one of the four original teachers he helped establish the village’s first high school. He also founded and edited a community magazine devoted to preserving the culture of the White Mountain Apache tribe. In 1999 he took a teaching job in Istanbul, arriving there five days before the August 17 earthquake.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618386017
• ISBN 13: 9780618386017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 293