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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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Wikipedia article
'10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World' is a 2019 novel by Turkish writer Elif Shafak and her eleventh overall.[https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/storytelling-is-about-swimming-against-the-tide-of-the-times-elif-shafak/1644386 "Storytelling is about swimming against the tide of the times: Elif Shafak"], "www.outlookindia.com", October 20, 2019 It is a one-woman story about a sex worker in Istanbul.[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/12/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-by-elif-shafak-review "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review one woman's story"], "The Guardian", Jun 12, 2019[https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/shafaks-ten-minutes-attempts-represent-sex-workers-falls-short "Shafaks 10 Minutes attempts to represent sex workers but falls short"], "The Michigan Daily", October 8, 2019 It was released by Viking Press in 2019.
Summary
'10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World' opens in 1990 with "Tequila Leila", who is a prostitute.[http://www.ourdailyread.com/2019/06/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-by-elif-shafak-review-powerful-but-preachy/ "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review powerful but preachy"], "Our Daily Read", June 16, 2019, The story has her five outcast friends, who don't share a worthy importance in a liberal country. Leila enters the state of awareness in her last moments, after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul. "While the Turkish sun rises above her and her friends asleep soundly nearby, she contemplates her mortal existence before eternal rest." In the last minutes she recalls her previous life; "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 while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her lifefriends who are now desperately trying to find her..."[https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/elif-shafak-1/work/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World"], "Curtis Brown",[https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/303/303783/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world/9780241293867.html "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Elif Shafak"] , "Penguin",[https://www.easons.com/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-elif-shafak-9780241293867 "10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD"] , "easons", June 06, 2019
Awards
*Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.[https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction "The Booker Prize - The Shortlist"], "The Booker Prizes", 2019[https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/booker-prize-2019-the-books-to-read-and-the-ones-you-can-skip-1.4037691 "Booker Prize 2019: The books to read, and the ones you can skip"], "The Irish Times", October 12, 2019[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/13/man-booker-prize-2019-shortlist "Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on"], "The Guardian", October 13, 2019[https://www.thestatesman.com/world/booker-prize-2019-atwood-rushdie-and-four-emerging-authors-up-for-prize-1502809684.html "Booker Prize 2019: Atwood, Rushdie and four emerging authors up for prize"], "The Statesman", October 14, 2019
*The Blackwell's Book of the Year, 2019
*Shortlisted for RSL Ondaatje Prize, 2020
References
Category:2019 novels
Category:Novels by Elif afak
Category:Novels set in Istanbul
Category:Turkish-language novels
Category:Novels about prostitution
Category:Novels about violence against women
Category:Violence against women in Turkey
Category:Novels set in the 1990s
Category:Fiction set in 1990
Category:Viking Press books
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