Honour
by Elif ShafakAvailable
Honor follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London. In London, they face a choice: stay...
Honor follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London. In London, they face a choice: stay...
An epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. An animal tamer in the sultan?s menagerie, he looks after the...
Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives - one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as...
In her prize-wining novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and decide to...
On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to doubt how she got here: a traumatic Istanbul childhood,...
'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...
From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.