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10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world / Elif Shafak.

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Record Number 801337
ISBN 9780241293874 (paperback)
9780241979464 (paperback)
Author Shafak, Elif, 1971- author.
Title 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world / Elif Shafak.
Publisher/Date London : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
©2019
Pagination etc. 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary Note 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...
Subject Memories -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Turkey -- Fiction
Shelf Location F SHAF
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