?How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of whom we are

That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho’s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all

The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn’t have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself .

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ‘Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak’s haunting, beautiful and considered prose’ Vanity Fair ‘Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative’ Pandora Sykes, The High Low ‘Richly uplifting… truly beautiful writing’ Nicola Sturgeon ‘In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila’s consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore…’ For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women’s legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each fading memory brings back the friends she made in her bittersweet life – friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . . ‘Simply magnificent, a truly captivating work of immense power and beauty, on the essence of life and its end’ Philippe Sands ‘A vivid carnival of life and death, cruelty and kindness, love, politics and deep humanity. Brilliant!’ Helena Kennedy ‘Elif Shafak brings into the written realm what so many others want to leave outside. Spend more than ten minutes and 38 seconds in this world of the estranged. Shafak makes a new home for us in words’ Colum McCann ‘Elif Shafak’s extraordinary 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World is a work of brutal beauty and consummate tenderness’ Simon Schama ‘A rich, sensual novel… This is a novel that gives voice to the invisible, the untouchable, the abused and the damaged, weaving their painful songs into a thing of beauty.’ Financial Times ‘One of the best writers in the world today’ Hanif Kureishi ‘Haunting, moving, beautifully written – and based by an extraordinary cast of characters who capture the diversity of modern Turkey. A masterpiece’ Peter Frankopan ‘Extraordinary’ Guardian ‘Life-affirming’ Stylist

لقد برع الكاتب روبين بتوصيل وشرح أهمية هذه الأهداف ومن ثم كيفية تحقيقها بإتباع بعض الآليات والطرق التي “من واقع تجربة شخصية” كانت فعالة بشكل واضح.…  

Baha

تتصدى هذه الرواية إلى قضية خطيرة تحصل في بعض الدول الفقيرة،

وهي الاتجار بالأطفال، الذي يخالف كل الشرائع والقيم والقوانين

الدولية ..

وإذا ما تلاقت العادات والتقاليد البالية في مكان ما من العالم،

مع العوز والفقر، في مكانٍ آخر من العالم، فإن أبواب الجحيم تفتح

على الأطفال الأبرياء ..

و Baha (باها) أحدُ ضحايا تلك التجارة البشعة، حيث باعته أمه

وهو طفل إلى زوجين خليجيين لم يُنجبا أطفالاً؛