Books by Elif Shafak

*The international bestseller** One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'*"e;Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..."e; Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . . 'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times

The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.

*As mentioned on BBC's Desert Island Discs*'A fascinating exploration of faith and friendship, rich and poor, and the devastating clash of tradition and modernity' Independent Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal.Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, 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 relic from a past - and a love - Peri had tried desperately to forget.The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. To her home with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about Islam and femininity. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart.

From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures.'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten . . .'Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood. Their eldest is the boy Iskender, who remembers Turkey and feels betrayal deeper than most. His sister is Esma, who is loyal and true despite the pain and heartache. And, lastly, Yunus, who was born in London, and is shy and different.Trapped by the mistakes of the past, the Toprak children find their lives shattered and transformed by a brutal act of murder . . .A powerful novel set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the trials of the immigrant, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tears families apart.'A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate' Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat'Rich and wide as the Euphrates river along whose banks it begins and ends, Elif Shafak has woven with masterful care and compassion one immigrant family's heartbreaking story - a story nurtured in the terrible silences between men and women trying to grow within ancient ways, all the while growing past them. I loved this book' Sarah Blake, author of The PostmistressElif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph, Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 views since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul and London.

ARKITEKTENS LÆRLING er en storslået fortælling fra Istanbul, centrum i Det Osmanniske Rige. I 1540 kommer den 12-årige elefanttæmmer, Jahan, til Istanbul. Han passer den kloge elefant, Chota, og falder for sultanens smukke datter, Mihrimah. Den store chefarkitekt, Mester Sinan, tager ham under vingerne, og sammen (med Chota) bygger de nogle af verdens mest fantastiske bygningsværker.En smuk og uforglemmelig fortælling om kunst og frihed, om konflikten mellem videnskab og fundamentalisme. Om rå magt og kærlighed og venskab.Elif Shafak blev født i 1971 i Frankrig og bor nu i London og Istanbul.Hun er prisbelønnet som forfatter og den mest læste kvindelige forfatter i Tyrkiet. Hun skriver både på tyrkisk og på engelsk. Hendes bøger er foreløbigt oversat til 47 sprog.Elif Shafak inspireres både af vestlige og østlige fortælletraditioner, romanerne afspejler hendes interesse for historie, filosofi og politik. Elif Shafak er dybt engageret i Tyrkiets politiske udvikling og anses for en af de mest betydningsfulde kommentatorer. Dette afspejler sig i, at hun har 1,7 millioner følgere på Twitter.På dansk er tidligere udkommet Bastarden fra Istanbul og Ære.Læs mere på: elifshafak.com og twitter.com/Elif_Safak.

By turns comic and tragic, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly na ve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth."e;An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade"e; - Orhan Pamuk"e;Hyper-active and hilarious"e; - IndependentElif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph, Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul and London.

A beautiful and compelling novel, Elif Shafak's The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others"e;I didn't say anything. I didn't return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.'An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. But while the woman wants to hide away from the world, the man meets the stares from passers-by head on, compiling his 'Dictionary of Gazes' to explore the boundaries between appearance and reality.Intertwined with the story of a bizarre freak-show organised in Istanbul in the 1880s, The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others."e;Beautifully evoked"e; - The Times"e;Original and Compelling"e; - TLS"e;Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes"e; - Helen Oyeyemi"e;Entertaining and affecting"e; - Publishers' Weekly Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph, Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul and London.

Romanen begynder med slutningen: Den 43-årige Leila ligger døende i en affaldscontainer i Istanbul efter at være blevet gennemtævet. I de sidste minutter hvor hun stadig er ved bevidsthed, ser hun de afgørende momenter i sit liv for sig: barndomshjemmet, hvor løgnen og hykleriet hersker, flugten hjemmefra og den naive piges møde med storbyen Istanbul, der ender på et bordel, oplevelsen af den store kærlighed trods alle odds – og endelig vennerne, der udgør hendes alternative familie: ringeagtet af samfundet som Leila selv, men med kærlighedsevnen i behold. 10 minutter og 38 sekunder i denne sære verden er en roman om at være udenfor, om at overleve som kvinde, bøsse, trans, sort, i en religiøs og patriarkalsk kultur uden at gå til grunde menneskeligt i den. En smuk og frodig roman der på trods af sine barske historier efterlader læseren med et håb. Shortlistet til Booker-prisen 2019"En blid, krydret og poetisk fortalt roman, fuld af strømmende drømmesyner og lysende håb." Kr. Dagblad, 5 stjerner

På vej til et middagsselskab gennem Istanbuls tætte trafik får Peri stjålet sin taske. Hun sætter efter tyven, og mens hun slås for at få sine ejendele tilbage, falder et gammelt fotografi ud af hendes håndtaske. På billedet ses tre unge kvinder med deres professor foran universitetsbiblioteket i Oxford. Et minde om intense, men umage venskaber og en kærlighed, som Peri har gjort, hvad hun kunne for at glemme.Peri når omsider frem til middagen, hvor gæsterne ivrigt diskuterer Tyrkiets fortid og fremtid, politik og religion. Men mindet om fortiden har slynget Peri tilbage i tiden, til dengang hun som nittenårig studerede i Oxford og for første gang var alene i udlandet. Hun er tilbage hos de to veninder, den pligtopfyldende, gudfrygtige Mona og rebellen Shirin. Og ikke mindst hos den udfordrende og charmerende Azur, hvis kursus om gud vendte op og ned på alting og satte gang i heftige debatter om kvindefrigørelse, kulturel identitet og islam. Og endelig tilbage til skandalen, der endte med at splitte dem alle ad. Elif Shafak er en tyrkisk-engelsk forfatter, bosat i Istanbul og London. Hun har skrevet sytten bøger, heraf elleve romaner. Shafak har en stor interesse for historie og filosofi og henter inspiration til sine fortællinger i både østlige og vestlige fortælletraditioner. Hun skriver både på tyrkisk og på engelsk og hendes bøger er oversat til halvtredssprog. Elif Shafak har en Ph.D. i statskundskab og har undervist på universiteter i Tyrkiet, USA og England, bl.a. på Sct. Anne’s College. Oxford University, hvor hun er æresmedlem.Elif Shafak er medlem af World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy, et frivilligt netværk af internationale eksperter, og hendes bøger såvel som hendes øvrige engagement, afspejler en stor interesse for og viden om politik, menneskerettigheder og ytringsfrihed.På dansk er tidligere udkommet Bastarden fra Istanbul, Ære og Arkitektens lærling Læs mere på elifshafak.com og på twitter.com/Elif_Safak.

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want 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 men die by age 41, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.

The Architect's Apprentice is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of The Bastard of Istanbul.'There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...'Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace menagerie.So begins an epic adventure that will see young Jahan rise from lowly origins to the highest ranks of the Sultan's court. Along the way he will meet deceitful courtiers and false friends, gypsies, animal tamers, and the beautiful, mischievous Princess Mihrimah. He will journey on Chota's back to the furthest corners of the Sultan's kingdom and back again. And one day he will catch the eye of the royal architect, Sinan, a chance encounter destined to change Jahan's fortunes forever.Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation, The Architect's Apprentice is a magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.'Fascinating and gripping' Rosamund Lupton on HonourElif Shafak is the acclaimed author of nine novels including The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and Honour, and is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages and she contributes to numerous international publications, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Newsweek and Time magazine. She is also a public speaker working with The London Speaker Bureau and is a TED Global speaker. Elif Shafak has previously been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is based in London with her two children. www.elifshafak.com

Hvad kan få et menneske til at dræbe en af sine egne - for ærens skyld? ÆRE er fortællingen om familier, kærlighed og misforståelser, der følger to tvillingesøstre født i en kurdisk landsby. Jamila bliver jordemor i landsbyen, mens Pembe følger sin tyrkiske mand, Adem, til London. I sammenstødet med London skal familien få kærligheden til at leve, mens skam, svigt og usikkerhed præger samværet. Når Adem forlader familien og Pembe finder en ny kærlighed, må deres ældste søn, Iskender, overtage rollen som den der forsvarer familiens ære. ELIF SHAFAK blev født i 1971 i Strasbourg i Frankrig. Hun er prisbelønnet som forfatter og den mest læste kvindelige forfatter i Tyrkiet. Hendes bøger er oversat til mere end 30 sprog. Elif Shafak har boet alverdens steder: Madrid, Ankara, Köln, Amman, Boston og Arizona. Hun har en Ph.d. i statskundskab. Aktuelt deler hun sin tid mellem Istanbul og London. Elif Shafak skriver for dagblade og magasiner i Tyrkiet. Hun har også skrevet for medier som The Guardian, Le Monde, Berliner Zeitung, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post og Time Magazine. Og hun skriver tekster til kendte rockgrupper i hjemlandet. ÆRE er hendes 8. roman. Tidligere udgivet på dansk: BASTARDEN FRA ISTANBUL. Et æresdrab er udgangspunktet for denne fængslende roman... Eksotisk, stemningsfuld, aldeles gribende. The Times Frodigt og mindeværdigt magisk-realistisk... Dette er en ekstraordinært begavet udformet og ambitiøs fortælling. Independent