Elif Shafak

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of loveElla Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by Zahara's tale of Shams of Tabriz's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir­rors her own and that Zahara--like Shams--has come to set her free. The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives--one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, Shams, the whirling dervish--that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work.

A "vivid and entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) "Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." --USA Today As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. The Bastard of Istanbul tells the story of their two families--and a secret connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland. Filed with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.

In One Brief Moment All Eternity is an astonishing new novel by the bestselling, prize-winning novelist Elif Shafak. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, it is a profound meditation on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature can hope to offer when the world feels broken. Building a fascinating bridge between Western prose and Eastern poetry, this story offers a luminous portrait of the life of an iconic writer, Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, told through the lives of the women - both real and fictional - who shaped him. 'Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it' ARUNDHATI ROY 'A unique and powerful voice in world literature' IAN MCEWAN

In One Brief Moment All Eternity is an astonishing new novel by the bestselling, prize-winning novelist Elif Shafak. Spanning decades and continents, from revolutionary 19th century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, it is a profound meditation on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature can hope to offer when the world feels broken. Building a fascinating bridge between Western prose and Eastern poetry, this story offers a luminous portrait of the life of an iconic writer, Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, told through the lives of the women – both real and fictional – who shaped him. 'Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it' ARUNDHATI ROY 'A unique and powerful voice in world literature' IAN MCEWAN

Palkitun kirjailijan lumoavan monikerroksinen romaani kertoo kolmesta henkilöstä, jotka asuvat kahden suuren joen, Thamesin ja Tigrisin, varrella eri aikoina. Heitä kaikkia yhdistää yksi ainoa vesipisara, joka muuttaa muotoaan ja kulkee halki mannerten ja vuosisatojen. Henkeäsalpaavan upea tarina alkaa muinaisesta Mesopotamiasta, jatkaa viktoriaanisen ajan Lontooseen ja sieltä 2000-luvulle nuoren jesiditytön pakomatkalle halki sodan repimien maiden. Lopuksi vesipisara löytää nykypäivän Lontoosta sydämensä särkeneen hydrologin, joka tutkii veden muistia.

Floderne i himlen er en storslået roman fra den Booker-shortlistede bestseller­forfatter Elif Shafak. Det er en markant fortælling om natur og hukommel­se – og om alt det, der forbinder os til verden og hinanden. I det victorianske London bliver et ekstraor­dinært barn født ved foden af den smudssorte Themsen-flod. Arthurs eneste chance for at slippe ud af fattigdommens kløer er hans exceptionelle evne til at huske og lære. Da hans unikke talent giver ham plads som lærling ved et trykkeri, åbner verden sig for ham, og en bog sender ham snart på en rejse tværs over havet – bogen om ruinerne af oldtidsbyen Nineveh. Floderne i himlen tager læseren fra Londons slumområder i 1800-tallet til nutidens Tyrkiet og Irak, hvor yazidierne lever, og giver stemme til dem, der ofte lever i tavshed. Elif Shafak har skrevet en eventyrlig og dybt rørende fortælling om et tabt digt, to store floder og tre særlige liv og skæbner – alt sammen forbundet af en enkelt vanddråbe. ”Vand husker. Det er mennesker, der glemmer.”

Ljubov - voda zhizni. Vljublennyj - ogon dushi. Vsja vselennaja nachinaet kruzhitsja inache, kogda ogon vljubljaetsja v vodu.XIII vek. V malenkom gorodke Konja, kuda s zapada ne doshli krestonostsy posle razgrablenija Konstantinopolja i kuda s vostoka ne dokatilis ordy Chingiskhana, "neskolko istinno verujuschikh" nanimajut ubijtsu po prozvischu Shakalja Golova dlja ustranenija Shamsa Tebrizi, stranstvujuschego dervisha, propovedujuschego "sorok pravil religii ljubvi". Ved izvestno, chem bolshe chelovek govorit o ljubvi, tem silnee ego nenavidjat...Nashi dni. SSHA. Ella Rubinshtejn, rabotajuschaja v literaturnom agentstve, poluchaet na retsenziju rukopis "Sladostnoe bogokhulstvo", dejstvie kotoroj proiskhodit v XIII veke. Roman nastolko zakhvatyvaet Ellu, chto ona nachinaet podozrevat, chto avtora nepostizhimym obrazom vdokhnovil geroj romana Shams iz Tebriza. I vot ljubov k avtoru knigi vryvaetsja v ee serdtse, polnostju perevorachivaja privychnuju i takuju miluju ej zhizn...

From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. - "Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf and] in your heart. You won't regret it."--Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur's only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur's world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family's ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time. In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything. A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, which remanifests across the centuries. A source of life and harbinger of death, rivers--the Tigris and the Thames--transcend history, transcend fate: "Water remembers. It is humans who forget."

Floderne i himlen er en storslået roman fra den Booker-shortlistede bestseller­forfatter Elif Shafak. Det er en markant fortælling om natur og hukommel­se – og om alt det, der forbinder os til verden og hinanden. I det victorianske London bliver et ekstraor­dinært barn født ved foden af den smudssorte Themsen-flod. Arthurs eneste chance for at slippe ud af fattigdommens kløer er hans exceptionelle evne til at huske og lære. Da hans unikke talent giver ham plads som lærling ved et trykkeri, åbner verden sig for ham, og en bog sender ham snart på en rejse tværs over havet – bogen om ruinerne af oldtidsbyen Nineveh. Floderne i himlen tager læseren fra Londons slumområder i 1800-tallet til nutidens Tyrkiet og Irak, hvor yazidierne lever, og giver stemme til dem, der ofte lever i tavshed. Elif Shafak har skrevet en eventyrlig og dybt rørende fortælling om et tabt digt, to store floder og tre særlige liv og skæbner – alt sammen forbundet af en enkelt vanddråbe. ”Vand husker. Det er mennesker, der glemmer.”

Debajo de una piedra enterr un secreto. Ha llovido mucho desde entonces, pero todav a debe de estar all , esperando a ser descubierto. Me pregunto si alg n d a lo encontrar alguien... Alli, escondido en las entra as de uno de los cientos de edificios que construy mi maestro, se halla el centro del universo. Hay ciudades donde las piedras encierran la historia del mundo entero. Juntando polvo, madera, metal y piedras preciosas, el maestro Sinan hab a construido los palacios m s hermosos de Estambul para celebrar la gloria de los sultanes y encubrir sus delitos. A su servicio trabajaban los mejores t cnicos y artesanos, y Jahan era su hombre de confianza. Hab a llegado de la India con solo doce a os, a principios del siglo XVI, y llevaba consigo a Xota, un elefante blanco que encandil a la corte y enamor a Mirihmah, la hija del sult n. Cuando se conocieron, Jahan era un simple aprendiz y ella la heredera de un gran imperio; sus manos nunca se cruzaron, pero la complicidad entre los dos cre un mundo aparte, donde el deseo era un aroma que llenaba el aire. Los consejos del viejo Sinan y el rostro de la joven mujer siguieron a Jahan a lo largo de los a os, mientras iba dirigiendo la construcci n de las grandes mezquitas de la ciudad, pero el tiempo no perdona. Ahora, poco antes de morir, el hombre cuenta por fin su historia y revela los secretos que aprendi de su maestro, unas palabras que nos llevar n al centro del universo, ese lugar donde todo es posible, incluso la felicidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire, from the acclaimed author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's "Reading Room" Book Club In this novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history. Yet even as they build Sinan's triumphant masterpieces--the incredible Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques--dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge, with jealousy erupting among Sinan's four apprentices. A memorable story of artistic freedom, creativity, and the clash between science and fundamentalism, Shafak's intricate novel brims with vibrant characters, intriguing adventure, and the lavish backdrop of the Ottoman court, where love and loyalty are no match for raw power.

La nueva novela de la autora de La bastarda de Estambul y El arquitecto del universo transcurre a caballo entre Estambul e Inglaterra, entre la tradici n y el af n por descubrir otras maneras de ver la vida. rase una vez un sult n que una noche de tormenta empez a leer unos espl ndidos poemas del gran Nefi. De repente, un rato alcanz los jardines del palacio y el hombre pens que aquello era una maldici n de los dioses. Rompi en mil pedazos las p ginas del libro, las lanz al B sforo y orden la muerte del poeta. Desde entonces, las aguas de ese mar son tan negras como la tinta de aquellos poemas perdidos... Ignorancia y poder: una mezcla explosiva que puede provocar mucho dolor in til. De eso nos habla Peri, una joven que vive a caballo entre Estambul y Oxford, lidiando con las ideas pol ticas del padre y la devoci n religiosa de su madre. La chica duda, investiga, y finalmente cree haber encontrado la verdad, cuando conoce a un profesor exc ntrico que estimula a sus estudiantes con preguntas siempre nuevas. Su gu a son las tres pasiones que seg n Bertrand Russell mueven los destinos de los humanos: el deseo de amor, la b squeda del conocimiento y la compasi n por el dolor ajeno. La teor a tiene sentido, el reto es apasionante, pero el deseo pide paso. Con estos mimbres, Elif Shafak ha escrito una novela hermosa y necesaria, para invitarnos a mover esas aguas negras que a menudo nos impiden caminar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, 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 women and their university professor. A relic from a past--and a love--Peri had tried desperately to forget. Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind, however, are the memories invoked by her almost-lost Polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. As a young woman there, she had become friends with the charming, adventurous Shirin, a fully assimilated Iranian girl, and Mona, a devout Egyptian American. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart. Three Daughters of Eve is a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world.

Amazon Mejores libros del 2024 Vuelve la aclamada Elif Shafak con una epopeya arrolladora que cabalga entre los siglos a trav s de tres personajes conectados por el poema m s antiguo de todos los tiempos: Gilgamesh. En la antigua N nive, a orillas del r o Tigris, durante la poca de mayor esplendor de Mesopotamia, el culto y despiadado rey Asurbanipal erigi una magn fica biblioteca para atesorar su preciada colecci n de tablillas, como las de La epopeya de Gilgamesh. El monarca est a punto de quemar vivo a su viejo maestro, aquel que le inculc el amor por la poes a, pero que ha terminado por traicionarlo. Pronto el Imperio asirio se derrumbar y quedar sepultado. Este es el punto de partida de «una novela extraordinaria e inolvidable (Mary Beard) en la que Elif Shafak, «una voz nica 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 d as, permanecen enlazadas por una gota de agua que renace a lo largo de los r os y los siglos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Amazon's Best Books of 2024 The acclaimed Elif Shafak returns with a sweeping epic that rides along centuries with three characters linked by the oldest poem of all time: Gilgamesh. In ancient Nineveh, on the bank of the Tigris River, during Mesopotamia's greatest splendor, the cultured and despicable King Ashurbanipal erected a magnificent library to hoard his treasured tablet collection, including The Epic of Gilgamesh. The monarch is about to burn his old master alive, he who taught him to love poetry, but who has now betrayed him. Soon the Assyrian empire will crumble and be buried. This is the starting point of "an extraordinary and unforgettable novel" (Mary Beard) in which Elif Shafak, "a singular voice in all of world literature" (Ian McEwan, ) expertly weaves the story of three marginal figures whose lives, from the fifth century before Christ to the present day, remain linked by a drop of water, reborn along rivers and centuries.

I ruinene av oldtidsbyen Ninive ligger fragmenter av Gilgamesjeposet gjemt i sanden. I 1840, ved den skitne Themsen, blir et ekstraordinært barn født. Arthur Smyths fantastiske hukommelse gir ham lærlingeplass ved et trykkeri. Han får tak i en bok som sender ham på en reise over havet: Ninive og dets levninger. 2014: Narin skal døpes ved Tigris idet dåpen blir brutalt avbrutt. Hun og bestemoren sendes ut på en farefull reise mot jesidienes hellige dal. 2018: Den ulykkelige hydrologen Zaleekhah flytter til en husbåt på elva Themsen. Hun ser for seg et liv uten kjærlighet og mening – inntil en uventet forbindelse til hjemlandet forandrer alt. Det er elver på himmelen er en svimlende og rik roman om et tapt dikt, to store elver og tre bemerkelsesverdige liv – alle forbundet av en enkelt vanndråpe.

Den tyrkisk-britiske forfatteren Elif Shafak har med Fikentreet skrevet sin kanskje mest ambisiøse og komplekse roman. Den spenner over fire tiår og flere kulturer, med handling lagt til Kypros og London.I 1974 invaderte tyrkiske soldater den nordlige delen av Kypros, og øya ble effektivt delt i to. Samme år treffes to tenåringer fra hver sin del av landet på tavernaen Den glade fiken. Der kan Kostas, som er greker og kristen, og Defne, som er tyrkisk og muslim, møtes i smug på bakrommet, skjult under svartsotede takbjelker som det henger kranser av hvitløk, chilipepper og urtekvaster fra. Tavernaen tilbyr diskresjon, samt den beste maten i byen, den beste musikken, den beste vinen. Den lar gjestene fortrenge, i hvert fall i noen timer, den bedrøvelige og truende verdenen utenfor.Midt i tavernaen vokser et fikentre ut gjennom en åpning i taket. Dette treet er vitne til de to ungdommenes hemmelige, lykkelige møter, såvel som til deres tause, stjålne avskjeder. Treet er der når krigshandlingene bryter ut, når hovedstaden blir lagt i grus – og når kjærestene forsvinner hver til sitt. Kostas til London, mens Defne blir værende på den voldsherjede øya.Flere tiår senere vokser datteren deres Ada opp i London. 16-åringen har aldri vært på øya foreldrene hennes kommer fra, og hun vil ha en forklaring på hemmeligholdet og tausheten deres. Den eneste forbindelsen hun har til foreldrenes hjemland, er det lille fikentreet som vokser i hagen hjemme, avleggeren som botanikerfaren Kostas har vært og hentet på Kypros.Kapittel for kapittel beveger romanen seg på tvers av fire årtier, oppklarer enkelte mysterier og skaper andre. Den hjerteskjærende slutten avrunder en vakker og magisk beretning om tap, eksil og lengsel – og om dikterisk frihet til å gjøre trær allvitende.«En vakker betraktning om noen av livets største spørsmål, om identitet, historie og mening.» – Time

Trogatelnye romany o ljubvi i neponimanii, v kotorykh splelis voedino motivy Vostoka i Zapada, prinesli turetskoj pisatelnitse Elif Shafak mezhdunarodnoe priznanie.Dve sestry-bliznetsa rodilis v sele na granitse Turtsii i Sirii, gde devushek tsenjat za chistotu i poslushanie, gde nepodobajuschee povedenie zhenschin mozhet posluzhit povodom dlja ubijstva vo imja chesti. Ved chest zachastuju - eto edinstvennoe, chto ostalos u muzhchiny-bednjaka.Odna iz sester Dzhamilja stanovitsja mestnoj povitukhoj, a vtoraja - Pimbi - vykhodit zamuzh i uezzhaet s muzhem v London. No zhizn v Anglii ne skladyvaetsja. Edim, muzh Pimbi, ukhodit ot nee. Ot odinochestva i neustroennosti Pimbi brosaetsja v objatija drugogo muzhchiny. I stavshij posle ukhoda ottsa starshim v seme, syn geroini Is-kender ponimaet, chto dolzhen vstupitsja za chest semi. No ponimaet on i to, chto mozhet prichinit bol cheloveku, kotorogo ljubit vsem serdtsem...

Roman "Stambulskij bastard" predstavljaet istoriju dvukh semej, turetskoj i armjanskoj, razdelennykh dramaticheskimi sobytijami na ikh rodine v nachale dvadtsatogo veka. Nikto iz chlenov etikh bolshikh semej dazhe ne podozrevaet, chto tragedija proshlogo tesno svjazala ikh nevidimymi nitjami. No vot v Stambul iz San-Frantsisko priezzhaet amerikanka armjanskogo proiskhozhdenija Armanush, kotoraja khochet rasputat klubok semejnykh tajn i razobratsja v sebe. V Stambule ona ostanavlivaetsja u turetskikh rodstvennikov otchima, gde znakomitsja so svoej sverstnitsej devjatnadtsatiletnej Asiej. Devushki bystro nakhodjat obschij jazyk, nesmotrja na to chto ikh razdeljaet vospitanie, obrazovanie, razlichnoe otnoshenie k istoricheskoj pravde...