In a collection of essays about modern Turkey, Polish journalist Witold Szablowsky writes about a country whose existence is hardly suspected by the hundreds of thousands of tourists who flock there every year. Five-star hotels, which have recently hired special people to search for the bodies of drowned illegal immigrants. Ararat, on the slopes of which Kurdish partisans gather. Prime Minister Erdogan, who managed to achieve unprecedented economic growth, but strengthened the position of Turkish Islamists. The famous terrorist Ali Agca, who shot John Paul II and received papal forgiveness. Illegal migrants who dream of Europe and are ready to do anything. A sexologist who advocates for sex education in Turkey. Former Turkish prostitutes sold into brothels by their husbands are running for parliament to tell the truth about the sex industry in Turkey. A woman sentenced to death by her own family because of a false accusation of cheating on her husband... The book “The Killer from the City of Apricots” received the British PEN Club award, the European Parliament Prize in the field of journalism, in 2011 it was nominated for the most prestigious Polish literary award Nike, and The American magazine World Literature Today included it in the list of seventy-five best translated books published in the USA in 2013.