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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of "The Forty Rules of Love" and "The Bastard of Istanbul" Elif Shafak, "Honour" is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures. 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten...' Leaving her twin sister be ...Show more
Honour (2013 Women's Fiction prize formerly Orange Prize longlist) by Elif Shafak
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten'. And so begins the story of Esma a young Kurdish woman in London trying to come to terms with the terrible murder her brother has committed. Esma tells the story of her family stretching back three generations; back to her ...Show more
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark. As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped by chance encounters. In the palace gardens he meets Mihrimah, ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the back list of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was long listed 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 ann ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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 Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family i ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that toget ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'*"Every tru ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$32.95 AUD
Category: 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