TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shafak,Elif 
TI  - 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
SN  - 9780241293874
U1  - F 
PY  - 2019////01/01
CY  - UK
PB  - Viking
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dead
KW  - Istanbul (Turkey)
KW  - Death
KW  - Reminiscing
KW  - Friendship
N1  - The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul.

'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 . . . '
Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his two 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 - the friends who are now desperately trying to find her
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