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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But the ...Show more
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 wh ...Show more
Honour by Elif Shafak
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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 an ...Show more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
$14.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better. The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in someth ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize.One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announ ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advoc ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath t ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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, ...Show more
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An Indie Next PickThe stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprenticeand The Bastard of Istanbul.Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more
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