'A rich, sensual novel that gives voice to the invisible' Financial Times - shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation. Shafak contributes to many major publications around the world and she has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better. She has judged numerous literary prizes and is chairing the Wellcome Prize 2019.
A truly captivating work of immense power and beauty
*Philippe Sands*
Haunting, moving, beautifully written
*Peter Frankopan*
A rich, sensual novel... This is a novel that gives voice to the
invisible, the untouchable, the abused and the damaged, weaving
their painful songs into a thing of beauty.
*Financial Times*
One of the best writers in the world today
*Hanif Kureishi*
Shafak is the most exciting Turkish novelist to reach western
readers in years
*Irish Times*
A terrific book. Poetic, poignant, trenchant
*Ian Rankin on 'Three Daughters of Eve'*
A thoughtful, charming book that offers a connection to other
worlds, perspectives and possibilities
*Sunday Times on 'Three Daughters of Eve'*
A brave and passionate novel
*Paul Theroux on 'Bastard of Istanbul'*
A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love,
politics and deep humanity. This is only possible in the hands of a
consummate storyteller. Elif Shafak's lyrical command of language
and narrative is breathtaking. Brilliant!
*Helena Kennedy*
Elif 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*
Elif Shafak's extraordinary Ten Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange
World is a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness, a wild
shout of life from out of the lower depths of destitution and
prostitution, indeed from beyond the grave itself. Every page
throbs with unruly vitality, the sense- saturating colours scents
and sounds of raw Istanbul, all registered with poetic sharpness.
It's a book which for all its ordeals is a profoundly moving, at
times lyrical, celebration of humanity's obstinate fight for life
against the steepest of odds
*Simon Schama*
A heartbreaking meditation on the ways in which social forces can
destroy a life. Elif Shafak can be unsparing, lyrical, political,
intimate... Several novels live in this one, and all of them are
moving, generous and elegantly written
*Juan Gabriel Vasquez*
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