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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
by Shafak, Elif
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0241979463
- ISBN 13
- 9780241979464
- Seller
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Umea, Sweden
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Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Penguin | 2020 | Mass Market Paperback | 320 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour - available for pre-order now '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 completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: 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... | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
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- Bookseller
- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel (SE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB-178917233
- Title
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
- Author
- Shafak, Elif
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0241979463
- ISBN 13
- 9780241979464
- Keywords
- död, minne, vänskap, Istanbul, sensuell
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h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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