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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down. --Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You Easily the funniest book Ive read this year. -- GQ A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 Mashable One Elle Magazine The New York Times Bookpage Vogue NPR Buzzfeed The Millions
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The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul.
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Après quarante ans d'une vie confortable, sans éclat ni passion, Ella n'imaginait pas un jour changer sa destinée. Engagée comme lectrice, elle découvre un manuscrit retraçant la rencontre au XIIIe siècle du poète Rûmi avec le plus célèbre derviche du monde musulman. C'est la révélation. Transcendée par cette histoire, elle s'initie au soufisme et à la splendeur de l'amour...
Avec Soufi mon amour, Elif Shafak signe son meilleur roman.
Isabelle Vramian, Elle Traduit de l'anglais (Turquie) par Dominique Letellier -
Ce roman commence par un cri. Ce cri, interminable, est celui que lance Ada, adolescente de 16 ans, en plein cours d'histoire dans un lycée londonien. Ce roman se termine par un rêve, celui d'une renaissance. Entre les deux a lieu la rencontre du Grec Kostas Kazantzakis et d'une jeune fille turque, Defne, en 1974, dans une Chypre déchirée par la guerre civile. De sa prose puissante, Elif Shafak nous conte l'histoire d'un amour interdit dans un climat de haine et de violence qui balaie tout sur son passage - avec l'espoir, tout de même, de libérer la parole des générations précédentes.
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Partagée entre ses origines américaines et arméniennes, la jeune Amy gagne Istanbul en secret. Elle ne se doute pas que son arrivée et son amitié naissante avec Asya, la bâtarde , menacent de faire surgir de terribles révélations... À travers quatre générations de femmes, Elif Shafak dresse le portrait éclatant d'une Turquie divisée, écorchée, mais vigoureusement moderne.
La plus grande romancière turque de ces dix dernières années.
Orhan Pamuk Traduit de l'anglais par Aline Azoulay Préface d'Amin Maalouf -
Et si notre esprit fonctionnait encore quelques instants après notre mort ? 10 minutes et 38 secondes exactement. C'est ce qui arrive à Leila, jeune prostituée brutalement assassinée dans une rue d'Istanbul. En attendant que l'on retrouve son corps, jeté par ses meurtriers dans une poubelle, ces quelques précieuses minutes sont l'occasion pour elle de se remémorer tous les événements qui l'ont conduite d'Anatolie jusqu'aux quartiers les plus malfamés de la ville. C'est ainsi que la romancière Elif Shafak retrace le parcours de cette jeune fille de bonne famille dont le destin a basculé, nous contant, à travers elle, l'histoire de tant d'autres femmes dans la Turquie d'aujourd'hui.
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Istanbul, au coeur de l'Empire ottoman, XVIe siècle. Le jeune Jahan débarque dans cette ville inconnue avec pour seul compagnon un magnifique éléphant blanc qu'il est chargé d'offrir au sultan Soliman le Magnifique. Chemin faisant, il rencontre des courtisans trompeurs et des faux amis, des gitans, des dompteurs d'animaux, ainsi que la belle et espiègle Mihrimah. Bientôt, il attire même l'attention de Sinan, l'architecte royal : une rencontre fortuite qui va changer le cours de son existence.
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Jeune immigrée kurde, Esma porte une histoire familiale entachée de sang. Décidée à comprendre, elle retrace sur trois générations le lourd destin qui la lie à ses ancêtres ; des rives de l'Euphrate à l'Angleterre, quand l'émancipation et la quête de liberté se heurtent aux traditions, Esma démêle lentement les fils de l'amour et de la haine...
" Un magnifique bijou, un livre somptueux. " The Times Traduit de l'anglais (Turquie) par Dominique Letellier -
Peri est mariée à un riche promoteur. Au cours d'un grand dîner dans une somptueuse villa du Bosphore, chacun commente les événements dramatiques que vit la Turquie. Peri, elle, se remémore sa jeunesse, les affrontements entre son père laïc et sa mère très pieuse, puis entre ses deux amies lorsqu'elle était étudiante à Oxford : Shirin, Iranienne émancipée, et Mona, musulmane pratiquante et féministe. Elle repense aussi à Azur, le flamboyant professeur de philosophie qui les a réunies.Au fil des souvenirs, cette soirée fera surgir les impasses dans lesquelles se débat la société turque, coincée entre tradition et modernité.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE 2022br>A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKbr>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021br>br>A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerbr>br>It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows.br>br>In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart.br>br>Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home.br>br>In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal.br>br>''What a wonderful read! This book moved me to tears... in the best way. Powerful and poignant'' Reese Witherspoonbr>br>''A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak''s characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, for those whom history has exiled, excluded or separated. I know it will move many readers around the world, as it moved me'' Robert Macfarlanebr>br>''A wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound'' William Boydbr>br>''This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime'' Polly Samsonbr>br>''A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES is balm for our bruised times'' David Mitchellbr>br>''An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty'' Lemn Sissaybr>br>''A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels'' Marian Keyesbr>br>''Lovely heartbreaker of a novel centered on dark secrets of civil wars & evils of extremism: Cyprus, star-crossed lovers, killed beloveds, damaged kids. Uprootings. (One narrator is a fig tree!)'' Margaret Atwood on Twitterbr>br>''Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature'' Ian McEwan>
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Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne''s College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). An advocate for women''s rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation. Shafak contributes to many major publications around the world and she has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better. She has judged numerous literary prizes and is chairing the Wellcome Prize 2019. Find out more about Elif Shafak on her website: www.elifshafak.com>
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An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour - available for pre-order now '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. . .
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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 is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kazanci men die early in their forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to visit to trace her family's heritage, long-hidden secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.
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Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, this is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal, from the winner of the prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking about what language - and languages - can and cannot do. Along the way she befriends Svetlana, a cosmopolitan Serb, and obsesses over Ivan, a mathematician from Hungary.
Selin ponders profound questions about how culture and language shape who we are, how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is. At once clever and clueless, Batuman's heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self.
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The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division? In this beautifully written and illuminating polemic, Booker Prize nominee Elif Shafak reflects on our age of pessimism, when emotions guide and misguide our politics, and misinformation and fear are the norm. A tender, uplifting plea for optimism, Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to reveal how writing can nurture democracy, tolerance and progress. And in the process, she answers one of the most urgent questions of our time.
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Une nouvelle langue dans la collection pour les Nuls + des pistes MP3 pour assimiler plus vite !
Que vous partiez en week-end à Istanbul, que vous vous offriez des vacances dans une station balnéaire turque ou que vous travailliez avec des Turcs, ce livre vous permettra d'acquérir les bases d'une langue encore peu connue en Europe.
Pour vous aider, découvrez dans ce livre :
- Les bases grammaticales et le vocabulaire adapté à toutes les situations.
- De nombreux exemples de conversation pour pratiquer le turc du quotidien.
- Des pistes MP3 à télécharger pour écouter et répéter.
- Des listes de mots à retenir pour mémoriser facilement le vocabulaire courant.
- Des jeux et exercices amusants pour assimiler ce que vous avez lu.
Inclus : un CD audio des dialogues de l'ouvrage ! -
Enis Batur, Moris Farhi, Nedim Gürsel, Ahmet Insel, Rosie Pinhas-Delpuech, Ayfer Tunç.
Trente-quatre écrivains, universitaires, artistes et autres « gens du livre » donnent un récit inédit de leur enfance en Turquie que certains, adultes, ont quittée, où vivent encore la plupart d'entre eux, parfois revenus d'exil. Une enfance urbaine ou villageoise aux quatre coins de la Thrace et de l'Anatolie, dans des familles d'origines diverses, entre les années 1930 et 1980. La mosaïque de leurs récits, où se mêlent l'intime et le politique, dessine en fi ligrane une Turquie qui éclaire celle d'aujourd'hui, plus prospère et peuplée, moins plurielle et laïque, et toujours exposée aux vents violents de l'histoire. Chaque récit est illustré de photos de leur auteur, enfant et adulte.
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Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them . The recipient of a Whiting Writers'' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers'' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.>
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Adam (Âdam) est le premier homme qu'Allah a créé. Il est aussi le premier Prophète. Il a d'abord vécu au paradis puis il est descendu avec son épouse Eve sur terre. C'est lui qui a construit la Kaaba.
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Le rocher s'est fissuré en produisant un grondement, et une chamelle aux poils rouges en est sortie. Les gens ont été abasourdis par sa beauté.
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Un jour, le roi d'Egypte a eu une vision dans son sommeil. Il a dit : « J'ai vu sept vaches maigres manger sept vaches grasses ; sept épis de blé secs et sept autres verts. »
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Le prophète Salomon (Sulaymân) pouvait comprendre le langage des animaux. Il avait à sa disposition une puissante armée composée d'hommes et d'animaux.