Elif Shafak Collection 3 Books Island of Missing Trees, Architect's Apprentice
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The Island of Missing Trees: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides
of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home.
The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian,
and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden
beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli
peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in
town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to
the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the
world outside and its immoderate sorrows.In the centre of the tavern,
growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will
witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious
departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when
the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break
apart.....
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World: SHORTLISTED FOR THE
BOOKER PRIZE 2019
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's
consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding
from the shore.For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a
sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to
celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and
sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee
she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works.
Each fading memory brings back the friends she made in her bittersweet
life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . .
The Architect's Apprentice: Elif Shafak
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.....
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Elif Shafak Collection 3 Books Island of Missing Trees, Architect's Apprentice
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