10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World explained
| 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | Elif Shafak |
| Audio Read By: | Alix Dunmore[1] |
| Set In: | Istanbul |
| Pub Date: | 2019[2] |
| Media Type: | Print |
| Pages: | 311 |
| Isbn: | 9780241293867 |
| Dewey: | 23 |
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Turkish: On Dakika Otuz Sekiz Saniye) is a 2019 novel by Turkish writer Elif Shafak and her eleventh overall.[3] It is a one-woman story about a sex worker in Istanbul.[4] [5] It was released by Viking Press in 2019.
Summary
10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World opens in 1990 with "Tequila Leila", who is a prostitute.[6] The story has her five outcast friends, who don't share a worthy importance in an illiberal country. Leila enters the state of awareness in her last moments, after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul. "While the Turkish sun rises above her and her friends asleep soundly nearby, she contemplates her mortal existence before eternal rest." In the last minutes she recalls her previous life; "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..."[7] [8] [9]
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Notes and References
- Book: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World . . 6 June 2019 . 24 October 2019.
- Web site: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World . . 24 October 2019.
- https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/storytelling-is-about-swimming-against-the-tide-of-the-times-elif-shafak/1644386 "Storytelling is about swimming against the tide of the times: Elif Shafak"
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/12/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-by-elif-shafak-review "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review – one woman's story"
- https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/shafaks-ten-minutes-attempts-represent-sex-workers-falls-short "Shafak’s ‘10 Minutes’ attempts to represent sex workers but falls short"
- http://www.ourdailyread.com/2019/06/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-by-elif-shafak-review-powerful-but-preachy/ "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review – powerful but preachy"
- https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/elif-shafak-1/work/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World"
- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/303/303783/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world/9780241293867.html "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Elif Shafak"
- https://www.easons.com/10-minutes-38-seconds-in-this-strange-world-elif-shafak-9780241293867 "10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD"
- https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction "The Booker Prize - The Shortlist"
- https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/booker-prize-2019-the-books-to-read-and-the-ones-you-can-skip-1.4037691 "Booker Prize 2019: The books to read, and the ones you can skip"
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/13/man-booker-prize-2019-shortlist "Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on"
- https://www.thestatesman.com/world/booker-prize-2019-atwood-rushdie-and-four-emerging-authors-up-for-prize-1502809684.html "Booker Prize 2019: Atwood, Rushdie and four emerging authors up for prize"
- Web site: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. blackwells.co.uk. Aug 2, 2020.
- Web site: Royal Society of Literature » RSL Ondaatje Prize. rsliterature.org. 23 May 2016 . Aug 2, 2020.
