10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldBy: Elif Shafak 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 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells,