The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul.
Elif Shafak is one of today's most influential international writers and intellectuals who straddle East and West. She is the acclaimed author of ten novels including The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul, and is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into over forty languages and she has been awarded the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. She is also a public speaker, a women's and LGBT rights activist and a commentator who regularly contributes to world publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica. Elif has been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. She lives in London and can be found at www.elifshafak.com
Haunting, moving, beautifully written - and based by an
extraordinary cast of characters who capture the diversity of
modern Turkey. A masterpiece.
*Peter Frankopan*
One of the best writers in the world today
*Hanif Kureishi*
Simply magnificent, a truly captivating work of immense power and
beauty, on the essence of life and its end.
*Philippe Sands*
Deeply moving
*Sunday Times*
A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love,
politics and deep humanity. This is only possible in the hands of a
consummate storyteller. Elif Shafak's lyrical command of language
and narrative is breathtaking. Brilliant!
*Helena Kennedy*
Elif Shafak's extraordinary Ten Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange
World is a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness, a wild
shout of life from out of the lower depths of destitution and
prostitution, indeed from beyond the grave itself. Every page
throbs with unruly vitality, the sense- saturating colours scents
and sounds of raw Istanbul, all registered with poetic sharpness.
It's a book which for all its ordeals is a profoundly moving, at
times lyrical, celebration of humanity's obstinate fight for life
against the steepest of odds
*Simon Schama*
A heartbreaking meditation on the ways in which social forces can
destroy a life. Elif Shafak can be unsparing, lyrical, political,
intimate... Several novels live in this one, and all of them are
moving, generous and elegantly written
*Juan Gabriel Vasquez*
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*
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*
Leila's complex inner life is laid bare in this touching novel,
which is vaguely reminiscent of The Lovely Bones. 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*
Lush, evocative and compassionate
*Mail on Sunday*
A haunting masterpiece
*Irish Mail on Sunday*
Life-affirming
*Stylist*
Extraordinary
*Guardian*
Sensual
*Observer*
Shafak is the most exciting Turkish novelist to reach western
readers in years
*Irish Times*
Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative
*The High Low*
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