num_pages: 293
description: Jeff Hartig, an American Peace Corps volunteer, and Anarbek Tashtanaliev, the owner of a Soviet cheese factory, are just a few of the disaffected characters who end up in Turkey on the eve of the 1999 earthquake, hoping to find something they cannot get at home. A first novel.
language: English
title: This is Not Civilization
titlecomplete: This is Not Civilization
genres: Fiction, Travel, Drama, Novels
ratings_count: 265
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt