'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’ : The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate by Donald Rayfield book prize The dialogues offer glimpses of

The dialogues offer glimpses of how museums around the globe are undergoing an accelerated phase of reappraisal and reinvention

Emmanuelle Parrenin

polyphonic literary form by combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices

Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897

the book includes semiautobiographical writings and prose poems that vividly evoke Eroshenko’s life and world

'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’ : The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate by Donald Rayfield book prize The dialogues offer glimpses ofThe Crimean Tatars Turkic speaking native peoples of Crimea established a powerful Khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield gives a historical portrait, showing that this misunderstood and much feared nation was in fact a flourishing state with a vibrant literary culture, religious tolerance, a sophisticated constitution and a prosperous economy.