Elif Shafak

Book Club: Elif Shafak | The Island of Missing Trees

Recorded: Sat 17 Apr 2021

Duration: 1 hour

Book Club: Elif Shafak | The Island of Missing Trees

Award-winning Turkish-British author Elif Shafak joins Alex Clark for our monthly Book Club to explore her extraordinary novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.

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