Description: Nâzım Hikmet is Turkey's best-known poet and one of their most recognizable historical figures. Meyer situates Nâzim's fascinating international life story within the context of his border-crossing generation of Turkish communist contemporaries, addressing changing attitudes in the 20th century toward borders and the people who cross them.
Review Quotes: "James H. Meyer has written a beautiful book...Thoroughly grounded in multi-country archival research, this book reevaluates the impact of Hikmet and his comrades and offers a fresh approach to writing a transnational history... intelligent and expertly crafted..." -- Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Russian Review
"The book is a new biography of the great 20th century poet Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963). It draws deeply on previously untapped archival sources from Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Washington, situating him within a broader generation of border-crossing Turkish communists." -- William Armstrong, Turkey Book Talk"Beautifully written... Meyer's meticulously researched book offers the most comprehensive biography of Nâzım Hikmet to date and fills an important gap in the existing literature. It is a solid work of scholarship and gives great inspiration to those intending to contribute to the aforementioned biographical boom in Turkish studies." - Erdem Sönmez, Middle Eastern Studies