Shafak Elif

Co może wyniknąć ze spotkania rozczarowanej życiem Amerykanki z trzynastowiecznym perskim poetą? Ella Rubinstein ma wiele powodów, by uważać swoje życie za porażkę. Właśnie skończyła czterdzieści lat, jej małżeństwo się rozpada, a dzieci, które dorosły, już jej nie potrzebują. Jakaż pustka... Wszystko się zmieni gdy zatrudniona w agencji...

Intryga, pasja i klątwa w sercu XVI-wiecznego StambułuDwór Sulejmana szczelnie oplatają intrygi, a w jego sercu trwa bezlitosna walka o władzę. Do sułtańskiej menażerii trafia młody opiekun białego słonia, Dżahan. Wkrótce zostanie uczniem mistrza Sinana, najsłynniejszego architekta imperium osmańskiego. Jego sercem zawładnie córka...

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 Ella's 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...

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...

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...'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...

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. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried...