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Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“And I know we both, all of us, love the epic of Gilgamesh, but this is one of the many reasons why I love the epic, because it really makes us think about failure, defeat.”
Why: It makes readers think about failure and defeat instead of having a hero who achieves everything.
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sandars
Guest on How I WriteElif Shafak & Robert Macfarlane: Two Novelists Have an Epic Conversation | How I Write
“It was Charles Dickens. It was Don Quixote by Cervantes. You suddenly connect with characters who seem to have nothing to do with your life.”
Why: It allows you to connect with characters who seem to have nothing to do with your life and travel with them.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Guest on How I WriteElif Shafak & Robert Macfarlane: Two Novelists Have an Epic Conversation | How I Write
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“which was the premise of one of my novels in a way. It's called 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in a Strange World, in which we know it's about a sex worker…”
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
Guest on How I WriteElif Shafak & Robert Macfarlane: Two Novelists Have an Epic Conversation | How I Write
“One of my earlier novels, The Island of Missing Trees, I briefly want to mention this because that deals with difficult subjects like civil war, division, partition.”
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Şafak
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