The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in...
So sehr Leila es auch dreht und wendet: Sie wurde ermordet. Wie konnte es zu dieser Tat kommen? Fieberhaft denkt sie zurück an die Schlüsselmomente ihres aufreibenden Lebens, an den Geschmack von gewürztem Ziegeneintopf aus ihrer Kindheit,...
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 childr...
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics
In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek, and Defne who is Turkish, can meet in secret, hidden beneath the leaves of a fig...
"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." âDavid Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.
Die Zwillingsschwestern Pembe und Jamila sind ein Herz und eine Seele. Doch während Jamila ihre Zukunft in einem kleinen kurdischen Dorf sieht, strebt Pembe nach mehr und zieht mit ihrem Mann und ihren drei Kindern nach London. Sie ahnt noch nicht,...
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 childr...
"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.."