Shafak Elif

or Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student...

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their...

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...

Araf znaczy czyściec. Tu spotkasz się z samym sobą.Omer, Abed i Piyu. Każdy z nich niedawno przyjechał do Stanów Zjednoczonych na studia w Bostonie. Omer pochodzi z Istambułu, robi doktorat z nauk politycznych, szybko adaptuje się w nowym miejscu i zakochuje się Gail - biseksualnej intelektualistce o skłonnościach samobójczych. Gail jest...