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The Architect's Apprentice

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Shafak, Elif
ISBN 
9780241970942
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R275.00
Published 
June 2015
About the book: 

When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark.

As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped by chance encounters. In the palace gardens he meets Mihrimah, the beautiful and mischievous princess, and loses his heart in an instant. Later he catches the eye of Grand Architect Sinan, who chooses Jahan as his apprentice and changes the young boy's destiny forever.

Full of magic, colour and societal upheaval in the architectural renaissance of Turkey, this is the sweeping tale of plagues, wars, forbidden romance and the simple love between a boy and his elephant.

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About the Author

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s novel  10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World  was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.  The Island of Missing Trees  was a  Sunday Times  bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.  There are Rivers in the Sky,  which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction, is her latest novel.

Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded the medal of  Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres  and, in 2024, was awarded the British Academy President's Medal for  “her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range.”

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