10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Mainland Spain
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...
Read more- Publisher ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241979464
- ISBN10 0241979463
- Type BOOK
- Published 2020
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
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English Literature10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
Editorial ALLEN LANE
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...
Mainland Spain
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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 . . .