Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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It has been almost fifteen years since I moved to London from Istanbul. Like every immigrant or ‘alien’ or nomad or exile, I have left a part of my heart behind. That is what migrations and relocations do to us, says the fig tree in The Island of Missing Trees: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don't simply carry…

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