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 BASTARD OF ISTANBUL
ISBN : 9780241986448
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.
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.
Architect's apprentice, the
ISBN : 9780241970942
'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...' Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare and valuable white elephant destined for the palace menagerie. So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again.
L'architecte du sultan
ISBN : 9782290127704
Istanbul, XVIe siècle. Le jeune Jahan, arrivé clandestinement, évolue dans la ville en compagnie d'un éléphant blanc destiné à être offert au sultan Soliman le Magnifique. Il rencontre des courtisans, des gitans, des dompteurs, mais aussi la belle Mihrimah. Un jour, il attire l'attention de Sinan, l'architecte du roi
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.
The gaze
ISBN : 9780241201916
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice , The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at... An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make-up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. This elegant, unforgettable novel explores our desire to look at others. 'Beautifully evoked' The Times 'Original and compelling' TLS