10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

The powerful Booker Prize-shortlisted novel from the bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees

    • 5.0 • 2 calificaciones
    • $ 17.900,00
    • $ 17.900,00

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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

'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

'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. A masterpiece' Peter Frankopan

'Extraordinary' Guardian

'Life-affirming' Stylist

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GÉNERO
Ficción y literatura
PUBLICADO
2019
6 de junio
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
320
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Penguin Books Ltd
VENDEDOR
Penguin Books Limited
TAMAÑO
5.2
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