10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Shafak, Elif

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

’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

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...

’One of the most important writers at work today’ Independent

Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780241979464
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2020
Kirjastoluokka: 84.5 Kaunokirjallisuus
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): English fiction new 221217b