A gripping tale of love, betrayal, and two clashing cultures, from the Booker-shortlisted author; now a Penguin Essential
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak was awarded the Halld r Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling.'
A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate
*Joanne Harris, bestselling author of 'Chocolat'*
Vivid storytelling... that explores the darkest aspects of faith
and love
*Sunday Telegraph*
[Elif Shafak] joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith,
Monica Ali, Aamer Hussein, Andrea Levy, Hanan al-Shakyh and Leila
Aboulela, who offer us fictional glimpses of London's Others
*Independent*
Fascinating and gripping - a wonderful novel
*Rosamund Lupton*
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