Elif Shafak

Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A rel..

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In her latest novel, Elif Shafak spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls fo..

A new title from the author of The Flea Palace, shortlisted for the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction and chosen for Waterstone’s 2005 Summer Reading promotion.In her prize-wining novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, ..

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, a..

From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “b..

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known ..

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 زیر نظر ناول ایلف شفق کے تحریرکردہ Honour کا اردو ترجمہ ہے۔ تین نسلوں پر مبنی محبت، غیرت کے نام پر قتل، خاندانی رشتوں، گھریلو تشدد اور متصادم ثقافتوں کی اس کہانی کے تانے بانے ایلف شفق نے بڑی ذہانت، نزاکت اور سبک پن سے بُنے ہیں۔ترکی اور شام کی سرحد پر دریائے فرات کے کنارے ایک کُرد گاﺅں ..

ایلف شفق ، ترکی کی مقبولِ عام ادیبہ ہیں۔ وہ اپنی کہانیوں میں پیش کردہ مشرق اور مغرب کے خوبصورت امتزاج کے باعث دنیا بھرمیں معروف ہیں۔ ناقدین کے مطابق، وہ ہم عصر ترکی ادب اور عالمی ادب میں ایک جداگانہ آواز ہیں۔ ان کی تحریروں کا موضوع خواتین، حقوقِ نسواں، اقلیتیں، تارکین وطن اور ان کے مسائل،..