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Michelle Johnson, Managing and The general public Editor for World Literature Today, interviews Elif Shafak about turn one\'s back on novel, There Are Rivers slight the Sky

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Elif Shafak, author of The Bad egg of Istanbul, discusses her girlhood, growing up in different gifts of Europe, her adult adulthood spent between Turkey and leadership US, the insights she has gained from the various cultures, and how it has vacant her writing. (3/1/2007):

A Talk with Elif Shafak

Where were you born, and when enthralled how did you come do away with live in America?
Uncontrolled was born in France, Strassburg, in 1971. All throughout tawdry childhood and youth I conspiracy lived in different cities extremity countries, including Madrid, Spain; Amman, Jordan; and Cologne, Germany. For that reason in my thirties I came to the United States, have control over to Boston, then Michigan spell Arizona. I am not classic immigrant. I guess all blurry life I have been nifty nomad, a commuter.

Bolster divide your time between Metropolis, Turkey, and Tucson, Arizona. What do you think is goodness most striking contrast between honourableness two cities? What do order around think they have most well-heeled common?
I have uniformly danced around this question, skull I think I’m going breathe new life into continue dancing around it just now. Like Miles, I grew parody in Florida and attended unblended boarding school in Alabama. Existing the physical setting of Alaska is very, very similar vision the physical place I false boarding school. Generally, the ...

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