{"title":"Elif Shafak","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElif Shafak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"forty-laws-of-love-9789953892573","title":"The Forty Rules of Love","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eThe Forty Rules of Love\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe novel's heroine, Ella, the unhappy wife, turns forty when she reads a novel about the life of Jalal ad-Din Rumi and his Sufi master, Shams of Tabriz. She is captivated by Shams's rules, which illuminate ancient philosophical concepts about the unity of peoples and religions, about the passion of poetry, and about the depth of love buried within each of us. Ella's life is turned upside down.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42040667635866,"sku":"9789953892573","price":73.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/book-fanar_423d4482-a5f1-4087-baa3-a3da83628c71.jpg?v=1694364188"},{"product_id":"9789953896892","title":"10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e The novel begins with the heroine, Laila, brutally murdered and her body dumped in a garbage dump. The events unfold during the final 10 minutes and 38 seconds during which her brain functions before she dies.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n \u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World tells the story of Tequila Leyla, a prostitute living in Istanbul. The title and first half of the novel describe Leyla's final moments of consciousness as she crosses from life to death. The book begins with Leyla's heart already stopped beating, but her thoughts run wild: \"People thought you had turned into a corpse the moment you took your last breath.\"\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n \u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eBut things weren't that clear. There were countless shades between jet black and pure white, and so were multiple stages of what was called \"eternal rest.\" If there was a boundary between the world of this life and the world of the afterlife, Layla decided, that boundary should be as permeable as sandstone.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"دار الآداب","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42040674025626,"sku":"9789953896892","price":75.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/10-38-book-fanar_32433414-f9a0-49e7-8e24-0059e5f4f1af.jpg?v=1694364271"},{"product_id":"9789953896540-1","title":"The girl who doesn't like her name","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eThe girl who doesn't like her name\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eSardonia is a smart and creative girl, but she has one problem: she hates her name, which means a type of flower, which makes her classmates make fun of her. She finds loyal friends in books and reading. One day, the girl finds a globe in a library, and through it she gets to know two strange friends from the eighth continent. This eighth continent imports imagination and exports stories, but it is suffering from drought due to the decline in reading and the lack of imagination. So Sardonia and her two friends, whom she met by chance, begin exciting adventures in order to save imagination and the eighth continent.\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42062036631706,"sku":"9789953896540-1","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/book-fanar_472d772e-85f0-4f2a-9c64-c940bb215f3b.jpg?v=1694364555"},{"product_id":"9789953894935","title":"The Loved Boy and the Teacher - Elif Shafak","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eThe Loved Boy and the Teacher\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Translated by: Dr. Muhammad Darwish\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eThe Passionate Boy and the Teacher is a novel by Elif Shafak. The worlds of this novel are strange and wonderful, as the novelist moves here to the world of the Ottoman Sultans as seen by Cihan, the Indian boy who came from India with an elephant, a gift to present to the Ottoman Sultan. He also encounters the events, intrigues and conspiracies he encounters in Istanbul while working as an elephant tamer and groom in the Sultan's palace. He also loves the Sultan's daughter, a love that completely took over him from the first moment he saw her, in addition to his work as a student in construction under the supervision of his teacher, Mimar Sinan, whose name was immortalized in many Ottoman monuments with amazing architectural designs. A novel full of characters, including the noble and the lowly, the honest and the thief, the honest and the drunkard, the good and the bad, the kind and the evil, the pious and the sinful, the oppressor and the oppressed, the ruler and the ruled, the honorable and the homosexual, and countless places, such as palaces, seas, prisons, brothels, inns, bars, ships, carriages, cities, countries, villages, countrysides, bridges, battlefields, arenas of war, war and peace. It contains human and inhuman feelings of love, hate and passion.\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42474517069978,"sku":"9789953894935","price":89.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/book-fanar_ac21057c-a551-41d6-b1e2-107c9384c5c8.jpg?v=1694365096"},{"product_id":"9789953897301","title":"Island of Lost Trees","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAuthor: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eTranslator: Ahmed Hassan Al-Moaini\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eElif Shafak retells a poignant story of life resembling that of Romeo and Juliet. The narrative reaches its climax when Kostas is sent to London by his mother in 1974 without being able to bid farewell to Defne, and they do not see each other again until many years later.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eElif Shafak is a Turkish novelist who writes in both Turkish and English. Her works have been translated into more than thirty languages, and she is famous for writing \"The Forty Rules of Love\" in 2010.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eHer first novel, \"The Sufi,\" won the Rumi Award for best literary work in Turkey in 1998. Her second novel, \"The Gaze,\" addresses Sufism among Muslims and Jews against a 17th-century Mediterranean backdrop, while her novel \"The Gaze\" won the Turkish Writers' Union Award in 2000.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eHer novel \"The Flea Palace\" also achieved the highest sales in Turkey, followed by the book \"The Tide,\" in which she discussed issues concerning the status of women and men, gender, mind, and literature.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eIn 2006, she published \"The Bastard of Istanbul\" in English, which became a bestseller in Turkey. In this novel, Shafak addresses – among other issues – the Armenian question.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42764381782170,"sku":"9789953897301","price":89.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/the-island-of-missing-trees-book-fanar_d9126a8a-89a4-4b5c-aa7c-906b2cc3e252.jpg?v=1694366346"},{"product_id":"9789953895048","title":"Candy Palace","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCandy Palace\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Translator's name: Muhammad Darwish\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003eDessert Palace is the second novel by Turkish writer Elif Shafak. It is more like a short story, connected by the setting: an old palace in Istanbul inhabited by residents who are very different from each other. Through the residents' stories, Shafak explains contemporary Turkish society with its contradictions and richness. The novel by Elif Shafak, translated by Dr. Muhammad Darwish, was published by Dar Al-Adab as part of a distinguished collection of translated novels that includes the rest of Shafak's works. About Dessert Palace: A building gifted by an aristocratic Russian immigrant to his sweetheart. The building reflects the contradictions and tensions of Istanbul society, including immigrants, minorities, the marginalized, and the crazy: a university professor; twins who run a barbershop; a pious man with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren; a woman obsessed with cleanliness and her picky daughter; And \"The Blue Lover.\" But the novel \"The Sweet Palace\" is, above all, a novel about social injustice, the fear of losing one's identity, the dominance of fate over the destinies of the characters, and the game of love that confused souls have condemned to death.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43344472834202,"sku":"9789953895048","price":84.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/book-fanar_5e0e72b6-b422-4b8d-84e6-b12f5892c71d.jpg?v=1694370801"},{"product_id":"9789953895253","title":"black milk","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eblack milk\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eWriting, motherhood and harem\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n \u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Milk is not just a journey through postpartum depression or the autobiography of a creative mother whose pen stopped producing words when she gave birth to her child. Rather, it is an experience of awareness of what can happen when the woman who gives birth to words and the woman who gives birth to children struggle, and how this struggle fractures the creative woman into multiple entities, depriving her of peace, serenity, and contentment, and leaving her, as Shafak writes, “perpetually obsessing about the path she neglected to choose.” In addition to the fun, lightheartedness, and humor of this book, it helps us women reconcile with our fragmented selves, in a style that does not provoke grief. 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The only brother lives in the United States, and his daughter, Armanush, along with Asya, will discover great secrets \u003cspan class=\"guts\"\u003eabout the family and about Turkey's modern history. \"The Bastard of Istanbul\" is a harsh and powerful novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Bait El Kutub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43853271728282,"sku":"9789953892405","price":73.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/9335\/7466\/files\/1_65b79c7b-0eaa-4806-83c0-dd005b22bbbc.jpg?v=1728130762"},{"product_id":"9789953892719","title":"honor","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003ehonor\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e Author's name: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;;text-align:left;direction:ltr\"\u003e \n\u003cspan class=\"content\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eBambi leaves Turkey, leaving her twin sister behind, and follows her beloved husband, Adam, to London. 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