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10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world
Shafak, Elif, 1971-2020
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Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory- growing up with her father and his two wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works. Most importantly, each memory reminds Leila of the five friends she met along the way - the friends who are now desperately trying to find her...
Main title:
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world / Elif Shafak.
Author:
Shafak, Elif, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2020.©2019
Collation:
311 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780241979464 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
639479