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
Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of
Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely
read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more
than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph,
Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on
the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010.
She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul
and London.
Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of
The Bastard of Istanbul
and
The Forty Rules of Love
and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has
been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor
for
The Telegraph
,
Guardian
and the
New York Times
and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000
viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides
her time between Istanbul and London.
