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

Ten minutes thirty-eight seconds in this strange world (other title)
Shafak, Elif, 1971- (author.).

Summary:

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's 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 ... ' 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1635574471
  • ISBN: 1635575818
  • ISBN: 9781635574470
  • ISBN: 9781635575811
  • ISBN: 9780241293867
  • ISBN: 9780241293874
  • Physical Description: 313 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in 2019 in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso
"Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize"--Jacket

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Subject:
Death > Fiction.
Death > Juvenile fiction.
Female friendship > Turkey > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Prostitutes > Fiction.
Reminiscing > Turkey > Fiction.
Victims of crimes > Fiction.
Women.
Women > Turkey > Fiction.
Femmes.
Mort > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Friendships.
Gender identity.
Homosociality.
Women.
Women's friendships.
Womyn.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Fiction.
Genre:
Novels.
Psychological fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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