10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Safak Elif
'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
| Proizvod je dostupan: | DA |
| Izdavač: | Penguin |
| ISBN: | 9780241293874 |
| Godina izdanja: | 2019 |
| Broj stranica: | 320 |
| Težina: | 363 |
| Tip uveza: | Paperback |
O autoru
Elif Şafak je
višestruko nagrađivana spisateljica i najčitanija književna autorica u Turskoj.
Aktivna je kao politička komentatorica i predavačica.
Piše na turskom i
engleskom jeziku, a do sada je objavila petnaest knjiga, uključujući deset
romana među kojima se ističu bestseleri Istanbulsko kopile i Četrdeset
pravila ljubavi. Knjige su joj prevedene na četrdeset i sedam jezika.
Şafak je TED
govornica, članica Vijeća za izradu globalnog programa za razvoj kreativne
industrije Svjetskog ekonomskog foruma u Davosu i jedna od osnivačica Evropskog
vijeća za međunarodne odnose, ECFR. Francuska vlada joj je 2010. dodijelila
Orden viteza za umjetnost i književnost.
Piše za vodeće
svjetske dnevne novine i časopise, uključujući Financial Times, Guardian,New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel i La
Repubblicu.
Predavala je na
brojnim univerzitetima u Turskoj, Velikoj Britaniji i Sjedinjenim Američkim
Državama. Diplomirala je međunarodne odnose, magistrirala rodne i ženske
studije, a doktorirala političke nauke. Poznata je kao aktivistkinja za prava
žena, manjina i pripadnika LGBT populacije.
Njene su knjige
nominovane za nagradu Orange, MAN Asian nagradu, Baileys nagradu i IMPAC Dublin
nagradu, a ušle su u uži izbor za dodjelu Nagrade za najbolji roman na stranom
jeziku i RSL Ondaatje nagrade.
Bila je članica
žirija za dodjelu Nezavisne nagrade za najbolji roman na stranom jeziku (2013),
Nagrade za najbolju kratku priču Sunday Timesa (2014, 2015), desete po redu
nagrade Žene budućnosti (2015), FT/Oppenheimer Fond nagrade za nove autorske
glasove (2015, 2016), Baileys ženske nagrade za književnu fikciju (2016) i Man
Booker međunarodne književne nagrade (2017).
Şafak živi u
Londonu.
Twitter @Elif_Safak