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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

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About Elif Shafak

Storyteller, Writer, Novelist, Reader, Literature lover, Immigrant, Feminist, Introvert, Citizen of Humanity

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