Scenes from an Afterlife
The recollections of a sex worker double up as a history of Turkey in Elif Shafak's novel.
by Urvashi Bahuguna
Aug 30, 2019
1 minute
After Leila, a 40-year-old sex worker in Istanbul, dies, her mind retains consciousness for another 10 minutes and 38 seconds. In those moments, she remembers her life growing up in a small town in Turkey, her departure
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