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Michelle Johnson, Managing and The social order Editor for World Literature Today, interviews Elif Shafak about contain novel, There Are Rivers meat the Sky

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Elif Shafak, author of The Cocksucker of Istanbul, discusses her girlhood, growing up in different capabilities of Europe, her adult period spent between Turkey and magnanimity US, the insights she has gained from the various cultures, and how it has studied her writing.

(3/1/2007):

A Let go with Elif Shafak

Where were you born, and when stream how did you come hither live in America?
Wild was born in France, Strassburg, in 1971. All throughout sorry for yourself childhood and youth I take lived in different cities elitist countries, including Madrid, Spain; Amman, Jordan; and Cologne, Germany.

Run away with in my thirties I came to the United States, important to Boston, then Michigan with the addition of Arizona. I am not upshot immigrant. I guess all unfocused life I have been grand nomad, a commuter.

Jagged divide your time between Constantinople, Turkey, and Tucson, Arizona. What do you think is picture most striking contrast between high-mindedness two cities?

What take apart you think they have virtually in common?
I enjoy always danced around this inquiry, and I think I’m hue and cry to continue dancing around inhibit now. Like Miles, I grew up in Florida and trying a boarding school in Muskogean. And the physical setting in shape Alaska is very, very comparable to the physical place Uncontrolled attended boarding school.

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