$21.75
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2015
Summary
A violent secret that hides beneath the streets of Istanbul threatens the peace of two interwoven families.
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor’s surgery. “I want an abortion,” she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.
Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the men die by age…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241972908 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241972906 |
| Author: | Elif Shafak |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
A brave and passionate novel
Unquestionably an ambitious book, exuberant and teeming … a novel crammed with characters and themes, not unlike Istanbul itself * Guardian *
Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking … will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages * Sunday Express *
Heartbreaking … the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak’s book * Vogue *
A writer whose artistry matches her ambition … she has taken on a subject of deep moral consequence * New York Times *
A brave and passionate novel
Tremendous exuberance … I do like a writer with a purpose * Margaret Forster *
An astonishingly rich and lively story … handled with an enchantingly light touch * Kirkus *
Overflows with a kitchen sink’s worth of zany characters … an entertaining and insightful ensemble novel that posits the universality of family, culture and coincidence * Publishers Weekly *
A tender and spirited novel… Steeped in the sights, colours and smells of Turkey’s capital, it grapples with the country’s dark legacies * NPR Books *
A beautiful book, the finest I have read * Irish Times *
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world.
Shafak’s latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell’s Book of the Year.
She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to “the renewal of the art of storytelling.”
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