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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Elif Shafak (born 1971)
English editions
Written in English10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Penguin · United Kingdom · 3 July 2025 · Paperback · 320 pages
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Viking · United Kingdom · 6 June 2019
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Bloomsbury · United States · September 2019 · Hardcover · 320 pages
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Bloomsbury · United States · 13 October 2020 · Paperback · 336 pages
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Leila, a sex worker in Istanbul known as Tequila Leila, has been killed and left in a rubbish bin. For ten minutes and thirty-eight seconds after her heart stops, her mind keeps working, and each minute brings back a memory bound to a taste or smell: the spiced goat stew her father served to celebrate the birth of a longed-for son, the sticky mix of sugar and lemon the women heated for waxing, the cardamom coffee she drank with a young man she met while working in a brothel. The memories trace her life from a childhood in a provincial Turkish town, through abuse and flight, to the city and the five outcast friends she found there, who are searching for her now.
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About the book
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- Novel
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- Türkiye
- First published
- 2019
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
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9781635574470 (Bloomsbury, United States)
9781635575811 (Bloomsbury, United States)
9780241979464 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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