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The Architect's Apprentice

The Architect's Apprentice

Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room   A dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World   'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...'   Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie.   So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever.   Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.   'A gorgeous picture of a city teeming with secrets, intrigue and romance' The Times   'Shafak's most ambitious novel yet her best - generous and imaginative' Independent   'Exuberant, epic and comic, fantastical and realistic . . . like all good stories it conveys deeper meanings about human experience' Financial Times   'Fascinating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power' Sunday Times   'Intricate, multi-layered, resplendent, vividly evoked, beautifully written' Observer   'Sumptuous, absorbing, moving' Independent on Sunday  

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Autor: Safak Elif
ISBN: 9780241970942
Godina izdanja: 2015
Broj stranica: 464
Težina: 319
Tip uveza: paperback
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Safak Elif

Safak Elif

Elif Şafak is a multiple award-winning writer and the most widely read literary author in Turkey. She is active as a political commentator and lecturer.

She writes in Turkish and English, and so far she has published fifteen books, including ten novels, among which the bestsellers Istanbul Bastard and Forty Rules of Love stand out. Her books have been translated into forty-seven languages.

Şafak is a TED speaker, a member of the Council for the Development of the Creative Industries Global Agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, ECFR. In 2010, the French government awarded her the Order of Chevalier of Arts and Letters.

He writes for the world's leading daily newspapers and magazines, including the Financial Times , the Guardian , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Der Spiegel and La Repubblica .

She has taught at numerous universities in Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She holds a BA in International Relations, an MA in Gender and Women's Studies, and a PhD in Political Science. She is known as an activist for women's, minority, and LGBT rights.

Her books have been nominated for the Orange Prize, the MAN Asian Prize, the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Foreign Language Novel Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.

She was a member of the jury for the Independent Award for Best Foreign Language Novel (2013), the Sunday Times Best Short Story Award (2014, 2015), the 10th Women of the Future Award (2015), the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Award for New Authorial Voices (2015, 2016), the Baileys Women's Prize for Literary Fiction (2016) and the Man Booker International Prize for Literature (2017).

Şafak lives in London.

 

www.elifshafak.com

Twitter @Elif_Safak

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Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room

 

A dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

 

'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...'

 

Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie.

 

So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever.

 

Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.

 

'A gorgeous picture of a city teeming with secrets, intrigue and romance' The Times

 

'Shafak's most ambitious novel yet her best - generous and imaginative' Independent

 

'Exuberant, epic and comic, fantastical and realistic . . . like all good stories it conveys deeper meanings about human experience' Financial Times

 

'Fascinating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power' Sunday Times

 

'Intricate, multi-layered, resplendent, vividly evoked, beautifully written' Observer

 

'Sumptuous, absorbing, moving' Independent on Sunday

 

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