From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families.In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who...

A short story by Elif Shafak from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In 'A Migrating Bird', a young Turkish woman is drawn to a Dutch student on foreign exchange at her university.

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 Shafak. In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active-for...

In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary...

Was uns trennt, was uns verbindet Im Jahr 1974 befindet sich Zypern kurz vor dem Bürgerkrieg. Eine Taverne, betrieben von einem schwulen Paar, ist der einzige Ort, an dem sich der Grieche Kostas und die Türkin Defne treffen können. Einzig ein prachtvoller Feigenbaum im Innenhof der Taverne ist Zeuge ihrer glücklichen Begegnungen und ihrer stillen Abschiede. Der Feigenbaum ist auch da, als der Krieg ausbricht, als Menschen auf der ganzen Insel...

FINALISTA DEL PREMIO BOOKER Y UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN ELLE 300.000 LECTORES, TRADUCIDA EN CINCUENTA PAÍSES Y ENTRE LOS 40 MEJORES LIBROS DE 2020 SEGÚN ESQUIRE «Elif Shafak puede ser despiadada, lírica, política, íntima. [...] Dentro deesta novela conviven otras tantas, todas ellas conmovedoras, espléndidas y escritas con elegancia.»Juan Gabriel Vásquez El cerebro permanece activo unos diez minutos después de que el corazón...