Book Club:10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
A profound, humanizing narrative about the victims of sexual violence: it starts with an explosive premise, as we dive into the mind of sex worker “Tequila Leila”, who is dying in a rubbish bin on the outskirts of Istanbul. As her brain begins to shut down, Leila, assuming the roles of digressive raconteur and her own biographer, goes back in time to trace the story of the little girl from the provinces who ends up as a two-column crime story in the city’s newspapers.
The novel was shortlisted for the Protected content Prize, and in Protected content the Ondaatje Prize.
Genre: Protected content Fiction
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About the author: Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller. She has published 21 books, 13 of which are novels, and her books have been translated into 58 languages.
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