10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldAuthor: Shafak, Elif Turkey Published on 6 August 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 320 pages 129 x 196 x 30 224g SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019'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'Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative' Pandora Sykes'In the first minute following her death,

Elver House is dilapidated

And how did they lose it all

How far would YOU go to find your way home

entertaining

You experience the characters' lives as though you are there

Peter is determined to do things all by himself

Iona is swept off her feet

A hilarious

and will kill for its contents

living alone and accepting imperfections

Soon those she loves most will be sucked into the orbit of one of the most powerful men in Tokyo

And the more they look and listen