10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world : a novel
Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works. Most importantly, each memory reminds Leila of the five friends she met along the way -- friends who are now desperately trying to find her...
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| Death > Fiction. Reminiscing > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Prostitutes > Turkey > Istanbul > Fiction. Murder victims > Fiction. Istanbul (Turkey) > Fiction. |
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| Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781635574470
- Physical Description 311 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
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