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Nuri's DonkeyUntold Stories & Unwritten Rules of a Village in Turkey"Nuri's Donkey is a delightful look at life in a Turkish village, from one of the few Americans who has actually lived it. Her stories are witty, poignant, evocative and always insightful. Together they enrich our understanding of how good people (and some bad ones) make their way through life in an era of rapid social change." - Stephen Kinzer, author of Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds Rarely do we get a chance to hear the lost voices behind the headlines from the Muslim world. Nuri's Donkey takes readers to a remote village in Turkey, where they will discover remarkable stories about people who are not so different from us after all. In October 1982, Emily Bunker went to the village with then-husband Fikri to meet her in-laws. She was the first American the villagers had ever seen. Curious onlookers continually dropped by to stare and ask questions; Emily's sisters-in-law, feeling obliged to protect her, would have to shoo them away. Four-year-old Yucel was fascinated and kept exclaiming, "your eyes are green, your hair is white!" One day, he found the courage to ask Fikri if he could keep her in exchange for one of his toy trucks. Consulting & Photography by Fikri Kuchuk English Renderings by Fikri Kuchuk & Emily Bunker Illustrations by Tim Joyce Excerpts Photographs Nuri's Cyprus Donkeys Purchase online at: Amazon | IndieBound | Trafford Publishing |