Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation. Shafak contributes to many major publications around the world and she has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better. She has judged numerous literary prizes and is chairing the Wellcome Prize 2019. Find out more about Elif Shafak on her website: www.elifshafak.com
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honor.
'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 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 life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her...
發表於2024-06-02
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圖書標籤: 土耳其 長篇小說 Fiction 文學 ElifShafak
題目和簡介比較攫眼球 其實就是一本迴憶錄的小說。總的來說還是寫的不錯的。篇幅和描寫的長短很符閤女主僅僅在這10分38秒閃爍而過的人生的感覺 不過要是就正常地寫她從小到大的故事 會不會能把整本書的每個角色寫的更豐滿 也可以更好從土耳其社會變遷的角度展現一個更宏大的故事。在看到Nalan這位變性朋友齣來 就有種 完全猜到是個什麼故事瞭 知道為什麼這本書受歡迎的感覺。發覺自己是真不太吃這種題材 勉強給個三星
評分屢次想放棄的閱讀體驗 因為對伊斯坦布爾的愛堅持瞭讀完。。
評分屢次想放棄的閱讀體驗 因為對伊斯坦布爾的愛堅持瞭讀完。。
評分To err is human. And Leila just lucky enough to have five best friends. Sorry for Sabotage that he did not tell Leila he had fall in love with her, I remember the first time they met Sabotage give his doll to Leila.
評分屢次想放棄的閱讀體驗 因為對伊斯坦布爾的愛堅持瞭讀完。。
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