Writing Amidst the Ruins - Elif Shafak

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“My cat was desperate, but I had made an oath.”

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Writing Amidst the Ruins

by Elif Shafak

A writer's self-imposed isolation draws her closer to her neighbors.

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Apr 30, 2011

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13:30

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Elif in her beloved Istanbul. Photo credit: Gökhan Çelem.