Elif Shafak: fiction as a bridge through divisions in a fractured world
In this episode of arts24, Eve Jackson sits with one of the most famous novelists in British Turkish of our time, Elif Shafak. With more than 20 pounds translated into more than 50 languages, Shafak thinks that fiction remains one of the last truly democratic spaces, where stories can strengthen empathy, challenge polarization and create links between cultures. His latest novel, “Here Be Rivers in the Sky”, takes readers to a radical journey through history and geography, drawing a single drop of water from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Iraq, on the urgent context of the climate crisis and cultural loss.
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