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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Autor Elif Shafak
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781635575811
ISBN-10: 1635575818
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 142 x 200 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Mensch Publishing

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Recenzii

A truly captivating work of immense power and beauty
Haunting, moving, beautifully written
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.
One of the best writers in the world today
Shafak is the most exciting Turkish novelist to reach western readers in years
A terrific book. Poetic, poignant, trenchant
A thoughtful, charming bookthat offers a connection to other worlds, perspectives and possibilities
A brave and passionate novel
A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love, politics and deep humanity. This is only possible in the hands of a consummate storyteller.Elif Shafak's lyrical command of language and narrative is breathtaking. Brilliant!
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
Elif Shafak's extraordinaryTen Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange Worldis a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness,a wild shout of life from out of the lower depths of destitution and prostitution, indeed from beyond the grave itself. Every page throbs with unruly vitality, the sense- saturating colours scents and sounds of raw Istanbul, all registered with poetic sharpness. It's a book which for all its ordeals is a profoundly moving, at times lyrical, celebration of humanity's obstinate fight for life against the steepest of odds
A heartbreaking meditation on the ways in which social forces can destroy a life. Elif Shafak can be unsparing, lyrical, political, intimate...Several novels live in this one, and all of them are moving, generous and elegantly written