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10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world : a novel

Shafak, Elif 1971- (author.).

Summary: "In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active—for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby, she remembers her life—and the lives of others, outcasts like her. Tequila Leila’s memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul, Leila makers her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking, finding a home in the city’s historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark, violent world, but Leila is tough and open to beauty, light, and essential bonds of friendship. In Tequila Leila’s death, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion."--

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  • ISBN: 9781635574470
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    311 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

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General Note:
"First published in 2019 in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK."--Title page verso.
Subject: Death -- Fiction
Reminiscing -- Turkey -- Fiction
Female friendship -- Turkey -- Fiction
Women -- Turkey -- Fiction
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
Genre: Psychological fiction.

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  • 13 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Sechelt/Gibsons. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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