Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage NPR Washington Post and The Economist A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak. In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still activefor 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun r