Three graduate school roommates—a Moroccan, a Turk and a Spaniard—are strange bedfellows in a potentially inhospitable land in this painstakingly multicultural but rather discombobulated first novel ...
Turkish-British writer-activist Elif Shafak presents a hauntingly beautiful novel, "The Island of Missing Trees" (Bloomsbury), involving a pair of young lovers – one Turkish, one Greek – who are ...
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Elif Shafak, a multilingual novelist and political scientist, on defining her culture and identity through literature
It was the summer of 1980s in Strasbourg, France when Elif Shafak’s parents separated. Only a child then, she remembers fragments of those formative years: A small flat in a banlieue along with books, ...
Elif Shafak’s novel cuts between the present-day life of Perin – a wealthy Istanbul housewife – her childhood in the city in the 1980s and her time at Oxford at the start of the millennium, when she ...
It's the year 1995 and email is a relatively new phenomenon. Selin, the protagonist of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot, has just started her first year at Harvard. She is the daughter of Turkish ...
Batuman’s follow-up to “The Idiot” follows the same character into her second year at Harvard. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...
In a heartbreaking turn of events, the promising DJ Elif Özcan has passed away suddenly, just two days after celebrating her engagement. According to the Turkish outlet IHA, she died of a heart attack ...
Elif Shafak is a writer whose work is still, for many, a secret treasure trove. You know of her, you’ve read reviews, but, falling as it does just outside the comfort zone for many English-language ...
James Crawford speaks to Elif Shafak about her new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky, and explores its connections to three other literary works. Show more Take Four Books, presented by James ...
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