Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young...

"The Forty Rules of Love" von Elif Shafak ist ein Roman, der zwei parallel verlaufende Geschichten erzählt. Die erste Geschichte spielt in der Gegenwart und dreht sich um Ella Rubinstein, eine unglückliche Hausfrau in den USA, die einen...

The new novel from the best-selling author of THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL. von Shafak, Elif

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been...

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been...

From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures.'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten'Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London....

A "vivid and entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck...

Full of magic, colour and societal upheaval in the architectural renaissance of Turkey, this is the sweeping tale of plagues, wars, forbidden romance and the simple love between a boy and his elephant. von Shafak, Elif

"The Island of Missing Trees" von Elif Shafak ist ein eindrucksvoller Roman, der die Geschichte zweier Liebender vor dem Hintergrund des geteilten Zyperns erzählt. Im Zentrum stehen Kostas, ein griechisch-zypriotischer Christ, und Defne,...

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.Twenty years later, Asya...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The EconomistA moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif...