Elif Shafak

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Elif Shafak talks to Shahidha Bari about her new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky - linking 'three characters, two rivers, and one epic poem’ by the journey of a single drop of water. Plus Hanna Pylväinen on writing with an omniscient narrator in her book The End of Drum-Time - when a Sami reindeer herder and a minister's daughter fall in love in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Emma Wallace Book List - Sunday 25 August There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak Epic of Gilgamesh Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen The Kalevala: Edited by Elias Lönnrot