SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019Expect vibrant, vivid and eyeopening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafaks haunting, beautiful and considered prose Vanity FairIncredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative Pandora SykesIn the first minute following her death, Tequila Leilas 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 they did not shut down. Not right away... For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the longawaited birth of a son the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which women use to wax their legs while men attend mosque the scent of cardamom coffee that she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends Leila made at each key moment in her life friends who are now desperately trying to find her. . . Simply magnificent, a truly captivating work of immense power and beauty, on the essence of life and its end Philippe SandsElif 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 A rich, sensual novel... This is a novel that gives voice to the invisible, the untouchable, the abused and the...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 344 g; Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 30

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