Elif Shafaq

literally who?

How the fuck does a 40 year old woman pioneer a 60 year old literary movement?

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>>8483847
THA FUCK.
Really? This woman is a joke in Turkey. She is a shit writer, she just writes about something which can bring her a fortune.
Pic Related: Aşk means "love" in Turkish, and for the looks of this book people bought this for their loved ones, yet it appears to be some spiritualistic shit between Mevlana(Rumi) and Shams(two fucking old men). It wasn't an original idea either, there were around a thousand books about Rumi and Shams, it gives nothing different.

TL;DR: Don't even google her. Its a waste of time.

>>8485414
Are you fond of Orhan Pamuk, Turkbro? I rather enjoyed "My Name Is Red."

>>8483847
Women aren't that held back in Turkey dude. Islamic fundamentalism is pretty much a last-decade development for the country. And trust me, there are worse countries out there

>>8485414
Also this

>>8483911
Also this

>>8485420
Not that guy but he's decent IMO. If you read Atay though he rips a ton from him.

On the topic of Atay, he's the best Turkish modernist

>>8485420
Yup, My Name Is Red was a good book. I also enjoyed "The Black Book", "Snow" and "Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları"(I'm not sure if this one has translated to English, it has to be something like Mr.Cevdet and his sons? IDK)

>>8485424
Cevdet is his best DESU. Does it drag? Yeah, but it's worth it for the most part

Kar is ultra-overrated

>>8483847
>identity politics
>can't even spell
>shit writer
can't make this up wew

>>8483847

she is a woman with a beautiful face. already on the top of the privilege scale.

>>8483847
>post-colonialist
>feminist
>female
>looks vaguely ethnic
>born to immigrant parents
>multilingual
>magic realism
>grew up in single-parent household
>deep longings for her "home city"

could liberalism have imagined a more perfect poster-person for its cause?

>>8485702
She doubles up as a perfect middlebrow poster girl too.

Also:
>succesfull