shafak elif 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange wo
Shafak Elif 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange Wo
"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...
679 Руб.
Shafak Elif 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange Wo
"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...
679 Руб.
Shafak Elif 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
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, 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
3463 Руб.
Shafak Elif The Bastard of Istanbul
A gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.
3169 Руб.
Shafak Elif The Architect's Apprentice
A dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room 'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...' Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie. So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever. Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.
3169 Руб.
Shafak Elif Honour
From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures. 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten' Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime. Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that can tear any family apart.
1336 Руб.
Shafak Elif Honour
From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures. 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten' Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime. Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that can tear any family apart.
3169 Руб.
Vorderman Carol 10 Minutes A Day French, Ages 7-11. Key Stage 2
Master Key Stage 2 French in just 10 minutes with this fantastic home-study workbook from Carol Vorderman. 10 Minutes a Day French is a homeschool learning resource for 7-11 year olds that teaches French in short, bite-sized chunks. Children prefer to learn in short bursts, making this workbook from Carol Vorderman the perfect homeschool introduction to language learning. Games and tests make learning fun, leading to maximum results in just 10 minutes a day. This workbook includes 10-minute activities on numbers, family, and the weather. The parents' notes section gives the answers, explains common pitfalls, and gives guidance on how to avoid them. 10 Minutes a Day workbooks are the perfect at-home reinforcement for subjects kids learn in school and support the National Curriculum.
1199 Руб.
Vorderman Carol, Tomson Charlotte, Avila Reyes 10 Minutes A Day Spanish, Ages 7-11. Key Stage 2
Master Key Stage 2 Spanish in just 10 minutes with this fantastic home-study workbook from Carol Vorderman. 10 Minutes a Day Spanish is a homeschool learning resource for 7-11 year olds that teaches Spanish in short, bite-sized chunks. Children prefer to learn in short bursts, making this workbook from Carol Vorderman the perfect homeschool introduction to maths. Games and tests make learning fun, leading to maximum results in just 10 minutes a day. This workbook includes 10-minute activities on school, music, food, and much more. The parents' notes section gives the answers, explains common pitfalls, and gives guidance on how to avoid them. 10 Minutes a Day workbooks are the perfect at-home reinforcement for subjects kids learn in school and support the National Curriculum.
1199 Руб.
Shafak Elif The Gaze
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at... An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make-up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. This elegant, unforgettable novel explores our desire to look at others.
2567 Руб.
Shafak Elif The Forty Rules of Love
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .
2310 Руб.
Vorderman Carol 10 Minutes A Day Phonics. Ages 3-5
Master pre-school phonics in just 10 minutes a day with this fantastic home-study workbook from Carol Vorderman. 10 Minutes a Day Phonics is a home learning resource for 3-5 year olds. Practising phonics at home for just 10 minutes a day will help young children build reading, spelling, and English skills. Children prefer to learn in short bursts, making this workbook the perfect preschool introduction to phonics. Games and tests make learning fun, leading to maximum results in just 10 minutes a day. This pre-school educational workbook includes activities on consonants, short vowel sounds, digraphs, and building words. The parents' notes section gives the answers, explains common pitfalls, and gives guidance on how to avoid them. These Carol Vorderman phonics workbooks are the perfect at-home reinforcement for subjects learned in school. 10 Minutes a Day Phonics supports National Curriculum at EYFS (Early Years Foundation).
1717 Руб.
Vorderman Carol 10 Minutes A Day. Vocabulary. Key Stage 2
Master Key Stage 2 vocabulary in just 10 minutes a day with this fantastic home learning workbook from Carol Vorderman. 10 Minutes a Day Vocabulary is a homeschool learning resource for 7 to 11 year olds that teaches vocabulary in short, bite-sized chunks. Children prefer to learn in short bursts, making this workbook from Carol Vorderman the perfect homeschool introduction to vocabulary. Games and tests make learning fun, leading to maximum results in just 10 minutes a day, helping you prepare your child for ks2 and beyond. This vocabulary workbook includes activities on synonyms, word meanings, and verb endings. The Parents' notes section gives the answers, explains common pitfalls and gives guidance on how to avoid them. Carol Vorderman's 10 Minutes a Day workbooks are the perfect at-home reinforcement for subjects learned in school and support the National Curriculum.
1245 Руб.
Shafak Elif The Flea Palace
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly naпve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
2567 Руб.
Vorderman Carol 10 Minutes a Day Spelling Fun. Ages 5-7. Key Stage 1
Master Key Stage 1 spelling in just 10 minutes with this fantastic home-study workbook from Carol Vorderman. 10 Minutes a Day Spelling Fun is a homeschool learning resource for 5-7 year olds that teaches spelling in bite-sized chunks. With exciting games and tests, spelling will become fun and learning it at home will be easy. Young learners excel when they practise in short bursts, making this book the perfect homeschool introduction to spelling. This workbook includes 10-minute activities on spelling rules, homophones, and unusual plurals. The parents' notes section gives the answers, explains common pitfalls, and gives guidance on how to avoid them. 10 Minutes a Day workbooks are the perfect at home reinforcement for subjects learned in school and support the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1.
1917 Руб.
Shafak Elif The Island of Missing Trees
A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home. The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal.
2283 Руб.