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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 (Hardcover)
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 (Hardcover)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 '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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