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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak talks to Shahidha Bari about her new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky. Plus Hanna Pylväinen on writing about the Arctic Circle with an omniscient narrator.

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

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