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0241979463

10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world.

Author: Shafak, Elif.

Publication year: 2020

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2020.

ISBN: 9780241979464 (pbk.) : 8.99

Notes:

Originally published: 2019.

Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works. Most importantly, each memory reminds Leila of the five friends she met along the way - friends who are now desperately trying to find her.