10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
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Festland Spanien
- Verlag ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241979464
- ISBN10 0241979463
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2020
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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English Literatur10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
Editorial ALLEN LANE
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Festland Spanien
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
'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
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 . . .