'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-six languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's last novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. There Are Rivers in the Sky is her latest novel.
A truly captivating work of immense power and beauty
*Philippe Sands*
Haunting, moving, beautifully written
*Peter Frankopan*
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*
Shafak is the most exciting Turkish novelist to reach western
readers in years
*Irish Times*
A terrific book. Poetic, poignant, trenchant
*Ian Rankin on 'Three Daughters of Eve'*
A thoughtful, charming book that offers a connection to other
worlds, perspectives and possibilities
*Sunday Times on 'Three Daughters of Eve'*
A brave and passionate novel
*Paul Theroux on 'Bastard of Istanbul'*
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!
*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*
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