The Island of Missing Trees
ISBN : 9780241435007
"A wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound." William Boyd. "This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime." Polly Samson. "A brilliant novel - one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, for those whom history has exiled, excluded or separated. I know it will move many readers around the world, as it moved me." Robert Macfarlane "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. The Island of Missing Trees is balm for our bruised times." David Mitchell.
Honour
ISBN : 9780241972946
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice , Honour is a tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures. 'A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate' Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten . . .' Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks
Trois filles d'Eve
ISBN : 9782290165430
Peri est mariée à un riche promoteur. Au cours d'un grand dîner dans une somptueuse villa du Bosphore, chacun commente les événements dramatiques que vit la Turquie. Peri, elle, se remémore sa jeunesse, les affrontements entre son père laïc et sa mère très pieuse, puis entre ses deux amies lorsqu'elle était étudiante à Oxford : Shirin, Iranienne émancipée, et Mona, musulmane pratiquante et féministe. Elle repense aussi à Azur, le flamboyant professeur de philosophie qui les a réunies. Au fil des souvenirs, cette soirée fera surgir les impasses dans lesquelles se débat la société turque, coincée entre tradition et modernité.
L'île aux arbres disparus
ISBN : 9782290380680
Ce roman commence par un cri. Ce cri, interminable, est celui que lance Ada, adolescente de 16 ans, en plein cours d'histoire dans un lycée londonien. Ce roman se termine par un rêve, celui d'une renaissance. Entre les deux a lieu la rencontre du Grec Kostas Kazantzakis et d'une jeune fille turque, Defne, en 1974, dans une Chypre déchirée par la guerre civile. De sa prose puissante, Elif Shafak nous conte l'histoire d'un amour interdit dans un climat de haine et de violence qui balaie tout sur son passage - avec l'espoir, tout de même, de libérer la parole des générations précédentes.
Black milk ; on motherhood and writing
ISBN : 9780241966259
Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and - like most of its victims - the author never expected to be one of them. But after the birth of her first child in 2006, the internationally bestselling Turkish author remembers how "for the first time my adult life ...words wouldn't speak to me".
Crime d'honneur
ISBN : 9782264060525
Jeune immigrée kurde, Esma porte une histoire familiale entachée de sang. Décidée à comprendre, elle retrace sur trois générations le lourd destin qui la lie à ses ancêtres ; des rives de l'Euphrate à l'Angleterre, quand l'émancipation et la quête de liberté se heurtent aux traditions, Esma démêle lentement les fils de l'amour et de la haine...
THE ISLAND OF THE MISSING TREES
ISBN : 9780241988725
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE 2022br>A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKbr>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021br>br>A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerbr>br>It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town,
Flea palace, the
ISBN : 9780241201909
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a
10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
ISBN : 9780241979464
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour - available for pre-order now '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...' For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: 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
10 minutes et 38 secondes dans ce monde étrange
ISBN : 9782290252505
Et si notre esprit fonctionnait encore quelques instants après notre mort? 10 minutes et 38 secondes exactement.C'est ce qui arrive à Leila, jeune prostituée brutalement assassinée dans une rue d'Istanbul. En attendant que l'on retrouve son corps, jeté par ses meurtriers dans une poubelle, ces quelques précieuses minutes sont l'occasion pour elle de se remémorer tous les événements qui l'ont conduite d'Anatolie jusqu'aux quartiers les plus malfamés de la ville.C'est ainsi que la romancière Elif Shafak retrace le parcours de cette jeune fille de bonne famille dont le destin a basculé, nous contant, à travers elle, l'histoire de tant d'autres femmes dans la Turquie d'aujourd'hui.