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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

'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 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 - 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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Autor: Safak Elif
ISBN: 9780241979464
Godina izdanja: 2020
Broj stranica: 320
Težina: 227
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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'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 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 - 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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