Je dédie ce roman aux exilés de tous les pays, aux déracinés, et aux arbres que nous avons laissés derrière nous, enracinés dans nos mémoires. Elif Shafak

L'île aux arbres disparus

The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - available for pre-order now *****This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur's only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur's world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book soon sending him across the seas: Nineveh and Its Remains. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised with water brought from the holy sit of Lalish in Iraq. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people. In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage. Zaleekhah foresees a life drained of all love and meaning - until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything. A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops:'Water remembers. It is humans who forget.'*****'Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature' Ian McEwan'An extraordinary novel, fresh and cleansing, like the rain bouncing off the metal roof of our lives.' Colum McCann'Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it' Arundhati Roy'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi'A brilliant, unforgettable novel' Mary Beard

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Situé dans un immeuble autrefois majestueuse à Istanbul, Le Palais puces raconte l'histoire de Bonbon Palace, construit par noble émigré russe Pavel Antipov pour sa femme Agrippine à la fin du règne des tsars. Il est aujourd'hui malheureusement délabré, infesté de puces, et la maison à dix individus très différents et leurs familles. Elif Shafak nous donne un aperçu à vol d'oiseau dans chaque appartement, et on voit leur vie comiques et tragiques se déroulent.

Bonbon Palace

Istanbul, XVIe siècle. Le jeune Jahan, arrivé clandestinement, évolue dans la ville en compagnie d'un éléphant blanc destiné à être offert au sultan Suleiman le Magnifique. Il rencontre des courtisans, des gitans, des dompteurs, mais aussi la belle Mihrimah. Un jour, il attire l'attention de Sinan, l'architecte du roi.

L'architecte du sultan

An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life.  After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words altogether. In this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, nomadic artist to dedicated by emotionally wrought mother. Identifying a constantly bickering harem of women who live inside of her, each with her own characteristics-the cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented go-getter, the practical-rational, the spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful-she craves harmony, or at least a unifying identity. As she intersperses her own experience with the lives of prominent authors such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Ayn Rand, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Shafak looks for a solution to the inherent conflict between artistic creation and responsible parenting.  With searing emotional honesty and an incisive examination of cultural mores within patriarchal societies, Shafak has rendered an important work about literature, motherhood, and spiritual well-being.

Lait Noir

La lecture du roman Doux blasphème d'Aziz Z. Zahara transcende spirituellement Ella Rubinstein, une femme épanouie de 40 ans. Celle-ci s'identifie au personnage, le poète Rûmi qui, au XIIIe siècle, vit son existence prendre une nouvelle orientation sous l'influence du célèbre derviche du monde musulman, Shams de Tabriz.

Soufi, mon amour

Et si notre esprit fonctionnait encore quelques instants après notre mort biologique ? 10 minutes et 38 secondes exactement. C’est ce qui arrive à Tequila Leila, prostituée brutalement assassinée dans une rue d’Istanbul. Du fond de la benne à ordures dans laquelle on l’a jetée, elle entreprend alors un voyage vertigineux au gré de ses souvenirs, d’Anatolie jusqu’aux quartiers les plus mal famés de la ville.En retraçant le parcours de cette jeune fille de bonne famille dont le destin a basculé, Elif Shafak nous raconte aussi l’histoire de nombre de femmes dans la Turquie d’aujourd’hui. À l’affût des silences pour mieux redonner la parole aux « sans-voix », la romancière excelle une nouvelle fois dans le portrait de ces « indésirables », relégués aux marges de la société.

10 minutes et 38 secondes dans ce monde étrange

One day a 19-year old and unmarried girl has an abortion. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.

The bastard of istanbul

By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.


Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.


There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly naïve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.

L'île aux arbres disparus

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