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Elif Shafak
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After the birth of her
first child in 2006, internationally best
selling Turkish writer Elif Shafak suffered
from postpartum depression that triggered a
profound personal crisis. Infused with
guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about
whether she could ever be a good mother,
Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in
words altogether. In this elegantly written
and often humorous and ironic memoir, she
retraces her journey from free-spirited,
nomadic artist to dedicated but emotionally
wrought mother. Identifying a constantly
bickering harem of women who live inside of
her, each with her own characteristics – the
cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented
go-getter, the practical-rational, the
spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful –
she craves harmony or at least a unifying
identity. As she intersperses her own
experience with the lives of prominent
female authors such as...
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In this lyrical,
imaginative new novel, acclaimed author Elif
Shafak unfolds two parallel narratives—one
contemporary and the other set in the
thirteenth century, when the Sufi poet and
mystic Rumi encountered his spiritual
mentor, the infamous wandering dervish known
as Shams of Tabriz. Both stories together
incarnate Rumi’s timeless message of love.
American housewife Ella 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 a work of fiction called Sweet
Blasphemy, written by a man named Aziz
Zahara. Zahara’s novel, which is told in
many different voices...
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In THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL,
Turkish author Elif Shafak confronts her
country’s violent past in a vivid and
colorful tale about the tangled history of
two families – one Turkish and one Armenian
American. Asya is a nineteen year old woman
who loves Johnny Cash and the French
existentialists. She lives in an extended
household in Istanbul, where she has been
raised, with no father in...
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Elif Shafak, an outstanding
name in the young generation of Turkish
authors, is a literary superstar in Turkey
where her previous four novels have won
every award available to a writer. THE SAINT OF INCIPIENT
INSANITIES is her first book written in English
and is set on a college campus in New England. It features a cast of
foreign students trying to make a place for themselves in America...
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