Women writing family sagas
Kim Chakanetsa meets two writers who explore the themes of love, identity and belonging.
Kim Chakanetsa meets two writers who, in their work, explore the themes of love, identity, belonging and inter-generational trauma.
Min Jin Lee is a South Korean - American author who wrote two novels, Free food for millionaires and Pachinko, a multi-generational saga following the story of a Korean family in Japan. Pachinko was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, and it鈥檚 recently been turned into a TV series.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British writer. She has written 19 books, most of them novels, which have been translated into 55 languages. She is a Booker prize finalist, and her most recent novel - The Island of Missing Trees - tells the forbidden love story between a Greek Cypriot man and a Turkish Cypriot woman.
