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Honour

From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures.'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten'Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime.Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that can tear any family apart.'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi'Vivid storytelling... that explores the darkest aspects of faith and love' Sunday Telegraph *** PRE-ORDER ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL IN ONE BRIEF MOMENT ALL ETERNITY NOW ***

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The Architect's Apprentice

A dazzling and intricate tale from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. '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 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. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever.The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.'A gorgeous picture of a city teeming with secrets, intrigue and romance' The Times'Exuberant, epic and comic, fantastical and realistic . . . like all good stories it conveys deeper meanings about human experience' Financial Times'Fascinating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power' Sunday Times'Intricate, multi-layered, resplendent, vividly evoked, beautifully written' Observer*** PRE-ORDER ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL IN ONE BRIEF MOMENT ALL ETERNITY NOW ***

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In One Brief Moment All Eternity

In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him--the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him--particularly Madame Bovary. Long considered one of the world's most influential writers, Gustave Flaubert paved the way for generations of novelists to come, and no protagonist of his is more indelibly immortalized than Madame Emma Bovary, whose tempestuous-yet-quotidian existence has captured the minds of nearly two centuries of readers. But Flaubert wrote Emma into being during one of the most chaotic and transformative eras in French history, replete with war, famine, and violence, and one of his own most troubled periods, during which he faced censorship and imprisonment. With remarkable discipline, Flaubert forged onwards, unstoppably embodying the drive and need to create during times of immense personal and political transformation. On the heels of her most successful book yet, There Are Rivers in the Sky, Shafak has given us a triumphant new tale that weaves the traditions of the European realist novel with the ethereal, twilight-tinged oral storytelling of the Middle East. It is a novel fired by the questions long haunting Shafak's work--Who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?--and shot through with a transcendent lightness and sensuality, each chapter tinged with different prisms of hues that evoke the vibrancy of Flaubert's epileptic episodes. It's a tale suffused by that feeling which comes when you are grabbed by a story and a character and plunged into the life of another, tumbling through space and time from the reader's present to Flaubert's 19th-century France. "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Flaubert is alleged to have said. But indeed, Flaubert was many others, and now, for the first time, these female ghosts--Flaubert's nanny, his mistress, a corpse, a half-drawn character--finally speak, their stories pouring forth with a tenderness and agony that will renew one's faith in the transformational power of art, even in the grimmest of times. One of the most breathtaking and inventive novels of Shafak's oeuvre, in the vein of Colm Tóibín and Maggie O'Farrell's literary reimaginations, this book bridges worlds--between East and West, past and present, intellectual and spiritual, real and imaginary, and even hope and despair, dancing delicately on the knife's edge of each.

1. Elif , Shafak

In One Brief Moment All Eternity

In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him--the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him--particularly Madame Bovary. Long considered one of the world's most influential writers, Gustave Flaubert paved the way for generations of novelists to come, and no protagonist of his is more indelibly immortalized than Madame Emma Bovary, whose tempestuous-yet-quotidian existence has captured the minds of nearly two centuries of readers. But Flaubert wrote Emma into being during one of the most chaotic and transformative eras in French history, replete with war, famine, and violence, and one of his own most troubled periods, during which he faced censorship and imprisonment. With remarkable discipline, Flaubert forged onwards, unstoppably embodying the drive and need to create during times of immense personal and political transformation. On the heels of her most successful book yet, There Are Rivers in the Sky, Shafak has given us a triumphant new tale that weaves the traditions of the European realist novel with the ethereal, twilight-tinged oral storytelling of the Middle East. It is a novel fired by the questions long haunting Shafak's work--Who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?--and shot through with a transcendent lightness and sensuality, each chapter tinged with different prisms of hues that evoke the vibrancy of Flaubert's epileptic episodes. It's a tale suffused by that feeling which comes when you are grabbed by a story and a character and plunged into the life of another, tumbling through space and time from the reader's present to Flaubert's 19th-century France. "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Flaubert is alleged to have said. But indeed, Flaubert was many others, and now, for the first time, these female ghosts--Flaubert's nanny, his mistress, a corpse, a half-drawn character--finally speak, their stories pouring forth with a tenderness and agony that will renew one's faith in the transformational power of art, even in the grimmest of times. One of the most breathtaking and inventive novels of Shafak's oeuvre, in the vein of Colm Tóibín and Maggie O'Farrell's literary reimaginations, this book bridges worlds--between East and West, past and present, intellectual and spiritual, real and imaginary, and even hope and despair, dancing delicately on the knife's edge of each.

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There Are Rivers in the Sky

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El arquitecto del universo / The Architect's Apprentice