Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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The Library of Unwritten Books

The Library of Unwritten Books

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Young Woman Reading, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1880

Far away, in a land on the outskirts of the magical Mount Kaf where all good stories and poems come from and where words taste like the first cake you ate when you were a child, there is a magnificent building made of jade and stone. It is called The Grand Library of Unwritten, Unpublished, Unread, Unloved Books…

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