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The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
‘ “Where are you from?” Elif Shafak asked herself in a 2020 Vanity Fair article. “I am from multiple places. I come from memories and...
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Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
Leo the African, or Leo Africanus, is not a new book. It was first published in French in the nineteen-eighties and my British edition...
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Tinkers by Paul Harding
In 2012 a friend persuaded me to apply for the Tin House writers’ conference, because Paul Harding was leading a class on novel writing....
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