Jahan, a twelve-year-old Indian boy, arrives at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul with a gift for the Sultan: a little white kisser named Shota. In this city, Jahans life changes thanks to two prominent figures: the Sultans daughter, Mihrimah, who charm...Lasīt vairāk
The heroine of the novel, Ella, the unhappy wife, reached the age of forty when she read a novel dealing with the life of Jalal al-Din al-Rumi and his Sufi dervish teacher, Shams of Tabriz. She was fascinated by Shamss rules, which illuminate ancie...Lasīt vairāk
Bembe leaves TĆ¼rkiye, leaving behind her twin sister, and following her beloved husband, Adam, to London. The Tobruk Kurdish family, in exile, tries in vain to distance itself from the traditions and beliefs that continue to haunt them until their l...Lasīt vairāk
What would happen if the human mind remained operational for a few precious minutes, after the moment of death? Ten minutes and thirty-eight seconds, to be exact.All the moments that followed Lailas death brought with them a different sensory memor...Lasīt vairāk
Perry was on her way to a dinner party in Istanbul when a beggar blocked her way and snatched her handbag. While she was struggling to retrieve her bag, a Polaroid picture fell from it, showing three girls and their blaming professor at Oxford Univer...Lasīt vairāk
A novel about the women of the Qazanji family who live in a large house: Zuleikha, the younger sister who owns a tattoo parlor, and is Asiyas foundling mother; Banu, who recently discovered her talents as an astrologer; Sizi, the widow and teacher,...Lasīt vairāk
Sardonya is a smart and creative girl, but she has one problem. She hates her name, because of which her class makes fun of her, so books and stories become her loyal friends.One day, the girl finds a model of the Earth in the library, and through it...Lasīt vairāk
Reflections on literature, motherhood, and spiritual peace, written by the first writer in TĆ¼rkiye.After the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak suffered a deep psychological crisis that prevented her from practicing writing for the first time in...Lasīt vairāk
In the building, the contradictions and tensions of Istanbul society - immigrants, minorities, the marginalized, and the insane: a university professor; Twins run a barbershop; A pious man with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, a woman obsessed...Lasīt vairāk
THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives all connected by a single drop of water.*****In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sa...Lasīt vairāk
Brought to you by Penguin.This audiobook is read by Olivia Vinall, and Elif Shafak reads the Note to Reader at the end of the story. This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of...Lasīt vairāk
A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2024This is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters. In 2024, nearly half the world...Lasīt vairāk
Justin Welby, Justin Welby, Elif Shafak, Susan Blackmore, Stephen King, Nick Cave, Various, Nick Carter, Clare Moriarty, Shirine Khoury-Haq...
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2024, MP3, Izdevniecība: BBC Audio, ISBN-13: 9781529928242)
Archbishop Justin Welby explores the inner lives of public figures in revealing conversations Listen now to fascinating and remarkable conversations between The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and leading men and women as they discuss big que...Lasīt vairāk
In our book today, Black Milk, Shafak recounts how her entire journey has changed, and how she turned from a writer who refuses to marry and sees an explicit threat to her creative life, for a wife, and a mother who seeks to balance her increasing...Lasīt vairāk
Fintan O'Toole, Ruth Padel, Heather Jones, Various, Elif Shafak, David Edgerton, Sara LeFanu
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Nov-2022, MP3, Izdevniecība: BBC Audio, ISBN-13: 9781529187878)
The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarshipWorld War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had...Lasīt vairāk
Nachts, wenn der Wind um die abgelegene griechische Insel tost, tastet sich der Schriftsteller Darley Glied um Glied an der Kette der Erinnerung zurĆ¼ck nach Alexandria. Erst jetzt, Jahre nach den Ereignissen, meint er alles zu verstehen, die schicks...Lasīt vairāk
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK*****You dont fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Not here, not now. In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a...Lasīt vairāk
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE 2022A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 3...Lasīt vairāk
Buchmagie pur!Dieses Kinderbuch der Bestsellerautorin Elif Shafak erzƤhlt eine poetische Geschichte Ć¼ber die Macht der Fantasie und den Zauber von Geschichten. Es ist das perfekte Geschenk fĆ¼r alle, die BĆ¼cher und Fantasie lieben. Ā Ā Ein fantas...Lasīt vairāk
