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Prologue: “The End” and Part One, “One Minute” - “Nalan’s Story”

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shafak, Elif. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. E-book.

• An epigraph is included on page 7 that consists of comments Albert Einstein made about the recent passing of his closest friend.

• Einstein laments the loss of his friend, but states, “For people like us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion” (7).

• An illustrated overhead map of Istanbul is provided over the course of several pages, starting on page 8.

• A key on the map names 12 different key landmarks that serve as the settings for a variety of scenes throughout the novel.

• The prologue, entitled “The End,” begins on page 11.

• The narrator begins the prologue by stating, “Her name was Leila...

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