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| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241966259 |
| ISBN 10 | 241966256 |
| Book Description | Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey''s bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of Honour, The Gaze and The Bastard of Istanbul which was long-listed for the Orange prize.Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and- like most of its victims- Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them. But after the birth of her first child in 2006, the internationally bestselling Turkish author remembers how "for the first time my adult life . . . words wouldn''t speak to me". As her despair finally eased, Shafak sought to resuscitate her writing life by chronicling her own experiences.In her intimate memoir, she reveals how she struggled to overcome her depression and how literature provided the salvation she so desperately needed.''An intimate, affecting memoir . . . Her passion for literature is contagious, and her struggle with postpartum depression and writer''s block reinforces how carefully all of us must tread. Beautifully rendered, Shafak''s Black Milk is an epic poem to women everywhere'' Colleen Mondor |
| About the Author | Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak was awarded the Halldr Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling.' |
| Language | English |
| Author | Elif Shafak |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 41487 |
| Number of Pages | 288 |
Black Milk Paperback English by Elif Shafak - 41487
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