# 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

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- Authors: [Elif Shafak](https://www.bookquiver.com/elif-shafak)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation

## Description

For Leila, each minute after her death brings a vivid memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which women use to wax their legs while men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that she shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends Leila made at each key moment in her life – friends who are now desperately trying to find her . . .

## Editions

### 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-946-4
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2025-07-03
- Language: en_GB

### 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-945-7
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Language: en_GB

### 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 12 min
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-319-5
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [10 minutos e 38 segundos neste mundo estranho](https://www.bookquiver.com/elif-shafak/pt/10-minutos-e-38-segundos-neste-mundo-estranho) (pt_PT)
- [10 хвилин та 38 секунд у цьому дивному світі](https://www.bookquiver.com/elif-shafak/uk/10-khvylyn-ta-38-sekund-u-tsomu-dyvnomu-sviti) (uk_UA)