10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-06-06
ISBN : 0241979455
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (241 users)

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Download or read book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair 'Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative' Pandora Sykes 'Richly uplifting... truly beautiful writing' Nicola Sturgeon 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...' For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each fading memory brings back the friends she made in her bittersweet life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . . 'Simply magnificent, a truly captivating work of immense power and beauty, on the essence of life and its end' Philippe Sands 'Elif Shafak brings into the written realm what so many others want to leave outside. Spend more than ten minutes and 38 seconds in this world of the estranged. Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann 'Elif Shafak's extraordinary 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World is a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness' Simon Schama 'A rich, sensual novel... This is a novel that gives voice to the invisible, the untouchable, the abused and the damaged, weaving their painful songs into a thing of beauty.' Financial Times 'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi 'Haunting, moving, beautifully written. A masterpiece' Peter Frankopan 'Extraordinary' Guardian 'Life-affirming' Stylist *Elif Shafak's latest novel The Island of Missing Trees is available now*

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-09-24
ISBN : 163557448X
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (635 users)

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Download or read book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World written by Elif Shafak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby, she remembers her life-and the lives of others, outcasts like her. Tequila Leila's memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul, Leila makes her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking, finding a home in the city's historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark, violent world, but Leila is tough and open to beauty, light, and the essential bonds of friendship. In Tequila Leila's death, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion.

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

by Shafak, Elif

Publisher :
Release Date : 2021-05-05
ISBN : 9789860635430
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (635 users)

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Download or read book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World written by Shafak, Elif and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her breathing has stopped before the brain shuts down, she only has 10 minutes and 38 seconds... After Pamuk, Turkey's most globally noticed contemporary writer: Elif Shafak's heavyweight masterpiece depicts people pursuing freedom in the moonlight with light strokes and ingenuity. Before dawn, Laila's corpse is in a large trash can on the side of Istanbul. Her breathing has ceased, and her consciousness is gradually graduating. She disappeared, she still had a little bit of time: 10 minutes and 38 seconds. The juvenile scavenger stepped forward and snatched the necklace pendant from her neck. Laila shouted from the bottom of her heart, Call the police, the police will notify the ambulance!

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-11-02
ISBN : 1635578604
Pages : 369 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (635 users)

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Download or read book The Island of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.

The Graveyard in Literature

by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-12
ISBN : 1527577384
Pages : 385 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (527 users)

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Download or read book The Graveyard in Literature written by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on literary and other cultural texts that use the graveyard as a liminal space within which received narratives and social values can be challenged, and new and empowering perspectives on the present articulated. It argues that such texts do so primarily by immersing the reader in a liminal space, between life and death, where traditional certainties such as time and space are suspended and new models of human interaction can thus be formulated. Essays in this volume examine the use of liminality as a vehicle for social critique, paying particular attention to the ways in which liminal spaces facilitate the construction of alternative perspectives.

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-08-05
ISBN : 024198873X
Pages : 368 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (241 users)

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Download or read book The Island of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home. The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal. 'This book moved me to tears . . . in the best way. Powerful and poignant' Reese Witherspoon 'A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion' Robert Macfarlane 'This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime' Polly Samson

Pandemie und Politik

by Schweiz. Institut für Auslandforschung

Publisher : NZZ Libro
Release Date : 2022-06-13
ISBN : 390739612X
Pages : 213 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (97 users)

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Download or read book Pandemie und Politik written by Schweiz. Institut für Auslandforschung and published by NZZ Libro. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lehren aus der Pandemie Auch 2021 drehte sich wieder vieles in der Welt um das Thema Corona, in anderen Facetten, aber durchaus länger, als man gehofft hatte. Die Krise hat weiterhin Themen nationaler wie internationaler Politik und Wirtschaft beeinflusst, und entsprechend widmeten sich die Veranstaltungen und Gespräche den Themen «Pandemie und Politik». Das Jahrbuch präsentiert eine Rückschau auf unsere renommierten Rednerinnen und Redner sowie unseren Austausch mit ihnen. Mit Beiträgen von Mervyn King, Gerhard Schwarz, Ilaria Capua, Christian Lindner, Niall Ferguson, Alain Berset, Anne Applebaum, Sahra Wagenknecht, Elif Shafak und Bertrand Piccard.

The Forty Rules of Love

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2010-02-18
ISBN : 1101189940
Pages : 368 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book The Forty Rules of Love written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Profile Books
Release Date : 2020-08-27
ISBN : 1782837280
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (782 users)

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Download or read book How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division written by Elif Shafak and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elegant ... calm and generous' Mary Beard, Guardian The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 One of the Guardian's 'Best Books to Inspire Compassion' One of Independent's Books of the Month A Cosmopolitan 'Revolutionary Read' Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So, how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this age of division? In this powerful, uplifting plea for conscious optimism, Booker Prize-nominated novelist and activist Elif Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to bring us together. In the process, she reveals how listening to each other can nurture democracy, empathy and our faith in a kinder and wiser future.

A History of the Booker Prize

by Merritt Moseley

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-31
ISBN : 1000433412
Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Booker Prize written by Merritt Moseley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also functions as an example of literary criticism for each of the books involved, analyzing the judging process and the winning books. Exploring themes such as literary vs. popular fiction, the role of Postcolonial work in what began as a very "British" prize, the role of marketing, publishing, and the Booker organization itself, the book offers a crucial view into literary prize culture. The book spends time looking at exclusions, as well as the overall role and function of the literary prize. What books aren’t included and why? Why has the Booker become so significant? This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in, or studying, contemporary literature, literary prizes, literary culture and British literature, as well as publishing studies.

The Architect's Apprentice

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2015-03-31
ISBN : 0698182626
Pages : 432 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (698 users)

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Download or read book The Architect's Apprentice written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire, from the acclaimed author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s “Reading Room” Book Club In this novel, Turkey’s preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan’s beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire’s chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota’s help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history. Yet even as they build Sinan’s triumphant masterpieces—the incredible Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques—dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge, with jealousy erupting among Sinan’s four apprentices. A memorable story of artistic freedom, creativity, and the clash between science and fundamentalism, Shafak’s intricate novel brims with vibrant characters, intriguing adventure, and the lavish backdrop of the Ottoman court, where love and loyalty are no match for raw power.

The Gaze

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2015-10-14
ISBN : 0241201918
Pages : 0 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (241 users)

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Download or read book The Gaze written by Elif Shafak and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at... An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make-up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. This elegant, unforgettable novel explores our desire to look at others. 'Beautifully evoked' The Times 'Original and compelling' TLS

Three Daughters of Eve

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-22
ISBN : 1632869969
Pages : 0 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (632 users)

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Download or read book Three Daughters of Eve written by Elif Shafak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning, timely novel from the acclaimed author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.

The Forty Rules of Love

by ELIF. SHAFAK

Publisher :
Release Date : 2023-05-18
ISBN : 9780241996546
Pages : 0 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (996 users)

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Download or read book The Forty Rules of Love written by ELIF. SHAFAK and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics *One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . . 'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times 'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph

The Bastard of Istanbul

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Viking
Release Date : 2019-06-06
ISBN : 9780241986448
Pages : 363 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (986 users)

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Download or read book The Bastard of Istanbul written by Elif Shafak and published by Viking. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a nineteen year old, unmarried woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion,' she announces. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. All the Kazanci men die in their early forties, victims of the mysterious family curse, so it is a house of women. Among them are Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother, her clairvoyant aunt, and their hopelessly hypochondriac sister. Into the midst for this madhouse comes Asya's feisty American cousin, and she's bringing long-hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past in her wake . . . Longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize

Untitled Elif Shafak Novel

by Elif Shafak

Publisher : Viking
Release Date : 2021-08-05
ISBN : 9780241434994
Pages : 368 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (434 users)

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Download or read book Untitled Elif Shafak Novel written by Elif Shafak and published by Viking. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna - the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret. The fig tree witnesses their hushed, happy meetings; their silent, surreptitious departures. Decades later, Kostas returns looking for Defne. The two lovers return to the taverna to take a clipping from the fig tree and smuggle it into their suitcase, bound for London. Years later, the fig tree in the garden is their daughter Ada's only knowledge of a home she has never visited, as she seeks to untangle years of secrets and silence, and find her place in the world

Honour

by Elif Shafak

Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-07-23
ISBN : 9780241989241
Pages : 344 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (989 users)

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Download or read book Honour written by Elif Shafak and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten' Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime. Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that can tear any family apart.