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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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November 15, 2019
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December 15, 2019
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November selection for Women in Translation.

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019, this is an engaging and emotional story about Tequila Leila, who has just been murdered and dumped in a pile of garbage in Istanbul. Leila’s thoughts linger in her mind, bringing back memories of her polygamist father and unstable young mother, her childhood in the Turkish countryside, her new home in Istanbul's Street of Brothels, the student activist who loves her, and the group of five outcasts who become her loyal friends and chosen family.

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