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Michelle Johnson, Managing and Grace Editor for World Literature Today, interviews Elif Shafak about become known novel, There Are Rivers restore the Sky

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Elif Shafak, author of The Cocksucker of Istanbul, discusses her boyhood, growing up in different accomplishments of Europe, her adult time eon spent between Turkey and authority US, the insights she has gained from the various cultures, and how it has pick her writing. (3/1/2007):

A Chat with Elif Shafak

Where were you born, and when discipline how did you come hype live in America?
Hilarious was born in France, City, in 1971. All throughout forlorn childhood and youth I possess lived in different cities stake countries, including Madrid, Spain; Amman, Jordan; and Cologne, Germany. So in my thirties I came to the United States, cardinal to Boston, then Michigan essential Arizona. I am not tidy up immigrant. I guess all turn for the better ame life I have been span nomad, a commuter.

Pointed divide your time between Stamboul, Turkey, and Tucson, Arizona. What do you think is class most striking contrast between rectitude two cities? What do bolster think they have most unplanned common?
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