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Elif Shafak

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After the publication of her last novel, “The Bastard of Istanbul,” writer Elif Shafak was charged with “public denigration of Turkishness.” She was later tried and acquitted. Shafak joins us in the studio to talk about that experience and about her latest novel The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi.

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