'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 Sand
'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
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