INSKEEP: She was there in recent years as Turkey's leader took over newspapers and arrested opposition figures. SHAFAK: In countries where there's no freedom of speech, ironically, sometimes words matter even more. She spends more time in London and sometimes the United States, yet Elif Shafak says she's been drawn back again and again to her former home of Istanbul on the dividing line between Europe and Asia. STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: She doesn't live full-time in Turkey anymore. She discussed her new novel with our co-host Steve Inskeep. Shafak herself was once put on trial in Turkey for writing about a sensitive subject. People pass books from hand to hand, and writers keep writing them despite the danger. GREENE: She says, in Turkey, the act of writing is a risk. And then I would miss the city and come back. The writer Elif Shafak tells stories of Istanbul, Turkey, a city she used to call home.ĮLIF SHAFAK: Almost like a pendulum, I would leave, and then I would miss the city.
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