10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Autor Elif Shafaken Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2020
'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,The High Low
'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
'A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love, politics and deep humanity. Brilliant!' Helena Kennedy
'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 extraordinary10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange Worldis 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 - and based by an extraordinary cast of characters who capture the diversity of modern Turkey. A masterpiece' Peter Frankopan
'Extraordinary'Guardian
'Life-affirming'Stylist
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241979464
ISBN-10: 0241979463
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241979463
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Elif
Shafakis
an
award-winning
British-Turkish
novelist
and
the
most
widely
read
female
author
in
Turkey.
She
writes
in
both
Turkish
and
English,
and
has
published
seventeen
books,
eleven
of
which
are
novels.
Her
work
has
been
translated
into
fifty
languages.
Shafak
holds
a
PhD
in
political
science
and
she
has
taught
at
various
universities
in
Turkey,
the
US
and
the
UK,
including
St
Anne's
College,
Oxford
University,
where
she
is
an
honorary
fellow.
She
is
a
member
of
World
Economic
Forum
Global
Agenda
Council
on
Creative
Economy
and
a
founding
member
of
the
European
Council
on
Foreign
Relations
(ECFR).
An
advocate
for
women's
rights,
LGBT
rights
and
freedom
of
speech,
Shafak
is
an
inspiring
public
speaker
and
twice
a
TED
global
speaker,
each
time
receiving
a
standing
ovation.
Shafak
contributes
to
many
major
publications
around
the
world
and
she
has
been
awarded
the
title
of
Chevalier
des
Arts
et
des
Lettres.
In
2017
she
was
chosen
by
Politico
as
one
of
the
twelve
people
who
would
make
the
world
better.
She
has
judged
numerous
literary
prizes
and
is
chairing
the
Wellcome
Prize
2019.
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
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