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_beng
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_bSHA
_dG
100 1 _aShafak, Elif,
_d1971-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _a10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World /
_cELIF SHAFAK
246 1 3 _aTen minutes thirty-eight seconds in this strange world
264 1 _a[London] :
_bPenguin Books
_c[2020]
300 _a311 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c20 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
500 _aFirst published by Viking 2019.
520 _a"In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' For 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 in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her... " [quatrième de couverture].
650 1 0 _aDead
_vFiction.
650 2 0 _aReminiscing
_vFiction.
650 2 0 _aDeath
_vFiction
650 2 0 _aInterpersonal relations
_vFiction
655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
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