'A rich, sensual novel that gives voice to the invisible' Financial Times - shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose
work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of
twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling
author in many countries around the world. Shafak's novel 10
Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the
Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. The Island of Missing
Trees was a Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the
Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. There are
Rivers in the Sky, which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction,
is her latest novel.
Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice
President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded
the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, in
2024, was awarded the British Academy President's Medal for 'her
excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible
intercultural range'.
A truly captivating work of immense power and beauty
Haunting, moving, beautifully written
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
Shafak is the most exciting Turkish novelist to reach western
readers in years
*Irish Times*
A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love,
politics and deep humanity. This is only possible in the hands of a
consummate storyteller. Elif Shafak's lyrical command of language
and narrative is breathtaking. Brilliant!
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
Elif Shafak's extraordinary Ten Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange
World is a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness, a wild
shout of life from out of the lower depths of destitution and
prostitution, indeed from beyond the grave itself. Every page
throbs with unruly vitality, the sense- saturating colours scents
and sounds of raw Istanbul, all registered with poetic sharpness.
It's a book which for all its ordeals is a profoundly moving, at
times lyrical, celebration of humanity's obstinate fight for life
against the steepest of odds
A heartbreaking meditation on the ways in which social forces can
destroy a life. Elif Shafak can be unsparing, lyrical, political,
intimate... Several novels live in this one, and all of them are
moving, generous and elegantly written
Deeply moving, imaginative. Shafak writes with immense
compassion
*Sunday Times*
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