Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘Writers are the memory keepers’

FT Everything Else by Forhecz Topher

Dec 16, 202429:46Society & Culture

Elif Shafak’s new novel brings together four stories set in three different centuries: ancient Mesopotamia, 19th century London, a Yazidi village in 2014, and the present day. It connects them through the epic of Gilgame...

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