Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Elif Shafak
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Iznik tiles, a language without words

Turkish is my mother tongue. The language of my grandmother, poetry and dreams. The amorphous shapes appearing in the dregs left at the bottom of coffee cups, waiting to be read. The sound of wind chimes. It is the smell of earth after a sudden storm, when you inadvertently search yourself, check your flesh, not sure…

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