Elif Shafak

Vuelve la aclamada Elif Shafak con una epopeya arrolladora que cabalga entre los siglos a través de tres personajes conectados por el poema más antiguo de todos los tiempos: Gilgamesh. En la antigua Ninive, a orillas del rio Tigris, durante la epoca de mayor esplendor de Mesopotamia, el culto y despiadado rey Asurbanipal erigio una magnifica biblioteca para atesorar su preciada coleccion de tablillas, como las de La epopeya de Gilgamesh. El monarca esta a punto de quemar vivo a su viejo maestro, aquel que le inculco el amor por la poesia, pero que ha terminado por traicionarlo. Pronto el Imperio asirio se derrumbara y quedara sepultado. Este es el punto de partida de una novela extraordinaria e inolvidable (Mary Beard) en la que Elif Shafak, una voz unica en toda la literatura mundial (Ian McEwan), consigue hilar con pericia la historia de tres personajes marginales cuyas vidas, desde el siglo VI antes de Cristo hasta nuestros dias, permanecen enlazadas por una gota de agua que renace a lo largo de los rios y los siglos.La critica ha dicho:La voz de Shafak es unica en toda la literatura mundial.Ian McEwan Una novela inmensa y prometedora.Diego Gandara, La Razon Elif Shafak sigue derramando rios de tinta. Y una mayoria los aclama. Una epopeya que abraza las injusticias y las minorias y las pule hasta darles el brillo que necesitan. Una novela en la que el agua, fuerte y omnipresente, conecta a personas, tiempos y lugares diversos.Concha Garcia, La Razon Sin duda una de las escritoras mas brillantes y notable de la literatura actual. [] Gracias a su narrativa emocional y de gran belleza, y la concepcion de grandes historias que la hacen muy atractiva, se ha convertido en una de las voces femeninas de mayor referencia en el universo literario. [] Shafak tiene el talento de encontrar la magia y la belleza no solo en los aspectos especiales y significativos de la vida, sino tambien en lo mundano, lo simple y en todo lo demas, y lo demuestra en su escritura.Francisco Millet Alcoba, La Opinion de Malaga Absorbente []. Todo encuentra su equilibrio gracias a la mirada delicada queposa Shafak sobre las dinamicas humanas, las emociones soterradas y los deseos mas reconditos de los personajes.Alex Clark, The Guardian Una novela epica sensacional, agil como un torrente, profunda como un oceano.Leila SlimaniElif Shafak puede ser despiadada, lirica, politica, intima.Juan Gabriel Vasquez Esta novela te hara pensar, llorar, rabiar y tener esperanza. Elif Shafak en su punto mas algido.Nicola Sturgeon, The Financial TimesUn final verdaderamente conmovedor.The New York Times Book Review Una novela extraordinaria, fresca y catartica, como la lluvia que resuena en el tejado metalico de nuestras vidas.Colum McCann Hagan hueco para Elif Shafak en sus estanterias y tambien en sus corazones. No se arrepentiran.Arundhati RoyUna escritora de novelas valiosas, bellas, dolorosas y autenticas.Marian Keyes En esta magnifica novela rio, el agua es poesia, el agua es memoria. Un canto de amor a los custodios de nuestras historias, un clamoroso homenaje a esas sabias mujeres que conocen la poesia de nu...

La nueva novela de la finalista del Premio Booker, con más de 300.000 lectores: «Preciosa y desgarradora» (Margaret Atwood) «Maravillosa». Mary Beard * «Una voz única en la literatura mundial». Ian

Una novela que cabalga entre lo doméstico y lo histórico y que evoca los colores, los aromas y la magia de las calles de Estambul «Esta magnífica novela me llevó a un país lejano, y la realidad era m

Elif Shafak, que triunfó en 2009 con La bastarda de Estambul, entrega ahora esta espléndida novela, que recrea el esplendor del Estambul del siglo XVI a través de los ojos de un joven que se convertira en un arquitecto de renombre. Hay ciudades donde las piedras encierran la historia del mundo entero y pasiones que viven de nuestra imaginacion. Jahan sabia que su amor solo podria dibujarse en el aire, pero eso poco le importo. El joven habia llegado de la India con solo doce años, a principios del siglo XVI, para trabajar al servicio del gran arquitecto Sinan y construir los mejores palacios y mezquitas de Estambul. Llevaba consigo a un fiel amigo, un elefante blanco que encandilo a la corte, y en los exoticos jardines de la mansion imperial conocio a Mihrimah, la hija del sultan. Los consejos de Sinan, la mirada complice del elefante y el deseo por la hermosa mujer siguieron al hombre durante muchos años, mientras iba juntando proyectos y recuerdos. Ahora, poco antes de morir, el viejo Jahan nos cuenta por fin su historia: sabremos como vivio su amor y como guardo los secretos aprendidos de su maestro, unas palabras que nos llevaran al centro del universo, ese lugar donde todo es posible, incluso la felicidad. Tras el exito de La bastarda de Estambul, esta es una esplendida novela dedicada a todos los que aman y que nunca se cansan de aprender.La critica ha dicho:La novela mas ambiciosa de Shafak hasta la fecha, y, sin duda, la mejor.The Independent Una serie de fascinantes viñetas sobre la relacion entre arte y religion, creatividad y devocion. [] Una novela apasionante, fresca y viva.The Washington Post Un logro impresionante, una novela poblada por soldados de capa y espada, gitanos misteriosos y no pocas cortesanas ingenuas, que es tambien un poema de amor a la belleza cosmopolita de Estambul. A medida que traza las pintorescas historias de estos personajes, Shafak despliega la que es probablemente su novela mas conseguida.The New York Times Book Review Una bella eintrincada historia sobre el vinculo entre un niño y un elefante, ambientada en la Estambul del siglo XVI.The Seattle Times La arquitectura es un poderoso motivo en esta [] edificante y emotiva novela, que muestra la capacidad del odio y la envidia para destruir y el poder del amor para reconstruir.The ObserverUna energica evocacion del Imperio otomano en el apogeo de su poder []. Una obra fascinante.The Sunday Times A la vez epica y comica, fantastica y realista, [] explora cuestiones como el poder y la intolerancia, la creatividad y la libertad, pero su tema principal es el amor. [] Una obra de imaginacion meticulosamente elaborada que revela al tiempo que oculta su propia habilidad, y que confirma la reputacion de Shafak como una escritora de variadisimo registro, que se resiste a ser clasificada y que no teme hacer preguntas.Financial Times Shafak traza un magnifico retrato de una ciudad repleta de secretos, intrigas y romances.The Daily Times Un cuento magico y lleno de colorido.Camilla Parker Bowles, Telva Una apasionantenovela []. Un relato historico exquisitamente realizado sobre el Imperio otomano del...

Una novela que cabalga entre lo doméstico y lo histórico y que evoca los colores, los aromas y la magia de las calles de Estambul «Esta magnífica novela me llevó a un país lejano, y la realidad era m

Vuelve la aclamadaElifShafak con una epopeya arrolladora que cabalga entre los siglos a través de tres personajes conectados por el poema más antiguo de todos los tiempos: Gilgamesh.En la antigua Nínive, a orillas del rio Tigris, durante la epoca de mayor esplendor de Mesopotamia, el culto y despiadado rey Asurbanipal erigio una magnifica biblioteca para atesorar su preciada coleccion de tablillas, como las de La epopeya de Gilgamesh. El monarca esta a punto de quemar vivo a su viejo maestro, aquel que le inculco el amor por la poesia, pero que ha terminado por traicionarlo. Pronto el Imperio asirio se derrumbara y quedara sepultado.Este es el punto de partida de una novela extraordinaria e inolvidable (Mary Beard) en la que Elif Shafak, una voz unica en toda la literatura mundial (Ian McEwan), consigue hilar con pericia la historia de tres personajes marginales cuyas vidas, desde el siglo VI antes de Cristo hasta nuestros dias, permanecen enlazadas por una gota de agua que renace a lo largo de los rios y los siglos.La critica ha dicho: La voz de Shafak es unica en toda la literatura mundial. Ian McEwanUna novela inmensa y prometedora. Diego Gandara, La RazonElif Shafak sigue derramando rios de tinta. Y una mayoria los aclama. Una epopeya que abraza las injusticias y las minorias y las pule hasta darles el brillo que necesitan. Una novela en la que el agua, fuerte y omnipresente, conecta a personas, tiempos y lugares diversos. Concha Garcia, La RazonSin duda una de las escritoras mas brillantes y notable de la literatura actual. [] Gracias a su narrativa emocional y de gran belleza, y la concepcion de grandes historias que la hacen muy atractiva, se ha convertido en una de las voces femeninas de mayor referencia en el universo literario. [] Shafak tiene el talento de encontrar la magia y la belleza no solo en los aspectos especiales y significativos de la vida, sino tambien en lo mundano, lo simple y en todo lo demas, y lo demuestra en su escritura. Francisco Millet Alcoba, La Opinion de MalagaAbsorbente []. Todo encuentra su equilibrio gracias a la mirada delicada que posa Shafak sobre las dinamicas humanas, las emociones soterradas y los deseos mas reconditos de los personajes. Alex Clark, The GuardianUna novela epica sensacional, agil como un torrente, profunda como un oceano. Leila SlimaniElif Shafak puede ser despiadada, lirica, politica, intima. Juan Gabriel VasquezEsta novela te hara pensar, llorar, rabiar y tener esperanza. Elif Shafak en su punto mas algido. Nicola Sturgeon, The Financial TimesUn final verdaderamente conmovedor.The New York Times Book ReviewUna novela extraordinaria, fresca y catartica, como la lluvia que resuena en el tejado metalico de nuestras vidas. Colum McCannHagan hueco para Elif Shafak en sus estanterias y tambien en sus corazones. No se arrepentiran. Arundhati RoyUna escritora de novelas valiosas, bellas, dolorosas y autenticas. Marian KeyesEn esta magnifica novela rio, el agua es poesia, el agua es memoria. Un canto de amor a los custodios de nuestras historias, un clamoroso homen...

The Architect's Apprentice is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. 'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...' 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. Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger. "A gorgeous picture of a city teeming with secrets, intrigue and romance." (The Times). "Shafak's most ambitious novel yet her best - generous and imaginative." (Independent). "Exuberant, epic and comic, fantastical and realistic...like all good stories it conveys deeper meanings about human experience." (Financial Times). "Fascinating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power." (Sunday Times). "Intricate, multi-layered, resplendent, vividly evoked, beautifully written." (Observer). "Sumptuous, absorbing, moving." (Independent on Sunday).

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ellas life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored...

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World*****There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.*****Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature Ian McEwan'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.''A storm is approaching Nineveh, the sky swollen with impending rain. One of the clouds approaching the world''s largest and wealthiest city, built on the banks of the river Tigris, is bigger and darker than the others-and more impatient. It floats suspended above a majestic building adorned with marble columns, pillared porticos and monumental statues. This is the North Palace, where the king resides in all his might and glory. The cloud casts a shadow over the imperial residence. For unlike humans, water has no regard for social status or royal titles.Dangling from the edge of the cloud is a single drop of rain - no bigger than a bean and lighter than a chickpea. For a while it quivers precariously - small, spherical and scared. How frightening it is to observe the earth open down below like a lonely lotus flower.Remember that raindrop, inconsequential though it may be compared to the magnitude of the universe. Inside, it holds a miniature world, a story of its own...''

The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics*One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped the World*"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we havent loved enough..."Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ellas life - an emptiness once filled by love.So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself The TimesColourfully woven

A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt 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. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence.The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home. In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal. 'What a wonderful read! This book moved me to tears...

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...

When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark. As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped by chance encounters. In the palace gardens he meets Mihrimah, the beautiful and mischievous princess, and loses his heart in an instant. Later he catches the eye of Grand Architect Sinan, who chooses Jahan as his apprentice and changes the young boy's destiny forever. 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.

''My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten...''Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood.Their eldest is the boy Iskender, who remembers Turkey and feels betrayal deeper than most. His sister is Esma, who is loyal and true despite the pain and heartache. And, lastly, Yunus, who was born in London, and is shy and different.Trapped by the mistakes of the past, the Toprak children find their lives shattered and transformed by a brutal act of murder . . .A powerful novel set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the trials of the immigrant, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tears families apart.

When The Bastard of Istanbul was published in Turkey, Elif Shafak was accused by nationalist lawyers of insulting Turkish identity. The charges were later dropped, and now readers in America can discover for themselves this bold and powerful tale. Populated with vibrant characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is the story of two families, one Turkish and one Armenian American, and their struggle to forge their unique identities against the backdrop of Turkeys violent history. Filled with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the tension between the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it.

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own, and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervish's timeless message for herself. This is a mesmerizing novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places