Elif Shafak (25 kníh)
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Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldFor Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs ...
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Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldFor 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; ...
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Elif Shafak Architektov učeňV polovici šestnásteho storočia, za vlády sultána Sulejmana, vpláva do istanbulského prístavu loď. Privezie indického chlapca Džahana a spolu s ním dar pre panovníka - bieleho slona Chotu. Mesto plné ľudí rôzneho vyznania a kultúr, labyrint ulíc, to všetko je nové pre sotva dvanásťročného Džahana i Chotu. Jedného dňa Džahan stretne architekta majstra Sinana a práve on zmení chlapcov osud. Elif Shafak je nositeľkou…
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Elif Shafak Architektov učeňV polovici šestnásteho storočia, za vlády sultána Sulejmana, vpláva do istanbulského prístavu loď. Privezie indického chlapca Džahana a spolu s ním dar pre panovníka - bieleho...
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Elif Shafak Black Milk ENBlack Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of Honour, The Gaze and The Bastard of Istanbul which was long-listed for the Orange prize. Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and- like most of its victims- Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them. But after the birth of her first child…
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Elif Shafak Black Milk ENBlack Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of Honour, The Gaze and The Bastard of Istanbul- which was long-listed for the Orange prize. Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and - like most of its victims - Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them. But after the birth of her first child…
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Elif Shafak Honour ENThere the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood. Their eldest is the boy Iskender, who remembers Turkey and feels betrayal deeper than most. His sister is Esma, who is loyal and true despite the pain and heartache. And, lastly, Yunus, who was born in London, and is…
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Elif Shafak Honour ENFrom 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 behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for…
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Elif Shafak Rebelka z IstanbuluRovnako ako kniha Štyridsať pravidiel lásky, aj román Rebelka z Istanbulu je ďalším fascinujúcim rozprávaním tureckej autorky Elif Shafak. Román bol v roku 2008 nominovaný na cenu Orange Fiction Prize. Autorka v ňom na pozadí mystického a multikultúrneho mesta Istanbul opisuje osud rodiny Kazandžiovcov, v ktorej už po mnoho pokolení vládnu ženy a muži zomierajú mladí. Keď sa v jedno daždivé popoludnie v ordinácii…
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Elif Shafak Štyridsať pravidiel láskyCelosvetovo úspešná turecká autorka Elif Shafak vo svojich knihách spája tradície Východu a Západu, búra vžité náboženské stereotypy a vytvára priestor pre všetky otvorené mysle. Jej knihy vyšli vo viac ako 40 svetových jazykoch a štýl jej písania vážne konkuruje slávnemu Paulovi Coelhovi. Štyridsaťročná Ella žije na predmestí Northamptonu v štáte Massachussetts a vedie pohodlný život po boku zámožného manžela.…
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Elif Shafak The Architect's Apprentice ENThe Architect's Apprentice is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. 'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...' Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his…
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Elif Shafak The Architects Apprentice ENWhen 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. Whispers in the palace gardens and secret journeys through Istanbul lead Jahan to Mihrimah, the beautiful Princess. Still under her spell, he is promoted from simple Mahout to apprentice of the Grand Master Architect, Sinan - when his fortunes…
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Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul ENFrom 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 announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later…
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Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul ENOne 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 in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women, among them her…
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Elif Shafak The Bastard of IstanbulOne rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life...
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Elif Shafak The Flea Palace ENShortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in…
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Elif Shafak The Flea Palace ENBonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. There’s a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a ‘clean freak’ and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly naïve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the garbage at Bonbon…
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Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love ENElla Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family…
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Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love ENElla Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family…
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Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love ENIn this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed 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 together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.
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Elif Shafak The Gaze ENFrom award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at... An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make-up and the woman draws a moustache on her…
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Elif Shafak The Gaze EN‘I didn’t say anything. I didn’t return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.’ An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. But while the…
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Elif Shafak Three Daughters of Eve ENSet across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old…
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