This book belongs neither to the Armenians nor to the Turks. The Deep Mountain was written for everyone who knows or can imagine the pain of being left homeless, of being wrenched from one’s home. Could there be an “us” beyond what convention has taught us? Can we possibly establish a “home,” an “us” that neither imprisons us nor rejects us? As she takes a close look Turkish and Armenian nationalism, Ece Temelkuran tells us about just who and what societies may have left out in the process of forming the collective “we.” Temelkuran, who persistently strives in all of her work to bridge the gaps, bringing the “distant” closer to home, this time tackles the “precarious” Armenian issue. “This is a book that transforms this ancient Armenian-Turkish dispute into a human drama.” Theodore Zeldin

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