What is the meaning of love & death in a remote forgotten impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land" the acclaimed author & journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out. Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of Varto a place left behind in Turkey's march to modernity medieval in its attachment to race & religious sect he explores the violent history of conflict between Turks Kurds & Armenians & the maelstrom of emotion & memories that defines its inhabitants even today. The result is a compellingly personal account of one man's search into the past as de Bellaigue mistrusted by all he meets & particularly by the secret agents of the State applies his investigative flair & fluent Turkish to unlock jealously-guarded taboos & hold humanity's excesses up to the light of a very modern sensibility."