Elif Shafak | If Trees Could Speak | Edinburgh International Book Festival
25K views · Feb 23, 2022 · Entertainment
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@cpknyc77 · 8 months ago
This woman is so brilliant and courageous, and she has so much humanity in her. She talks about the inter generational pain and trauma that so many of us carry and gives us the vocabulary to grieve and hope. We all carry multitudes, and we can crumble under the weight or we can expand. She shows us how to do the latter. ❤
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@RealBallabc · 2 years ago
Elif is so talented and compassionate. Clip at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQooWsdWFRc&t=1585">26:25</a>. Spot on about fiction. And the tragic irony is that K-12 education in the US continues to disappear fiction in favor of nonfiction and what it calls "informational" texts. Fiction teaches us so much about ourselves, others, and the worlds within which we all live. Reading fiction humanizes us, and allows us to dream and this should not be taken lightly given the realities of our current era.
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@LArtherton · 4 months ago
My favourite book. Elif is an amazing writer.
@gignaposixsix9821 · 4 years ago (edited)
Each of her books is a journey themselves, just finished "The Island of Missing Trees" and I am having PGBD hungover (Post Great Book Depression). Beautiful and educational read as well !!
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@michaelstavrinos6367 · 3 years ago
Elif Shafaks book about the island of missing trees is <br>an honest true story of people wwho lost their roots greek and turks inhabitants of the island of Cyprus.
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@asthetics.. · 4 years ago
A natural n spontaneous lady ✨️ @Elif
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@bluestatechampion · 4 years ago
Elif is always a joy to read and to listen to...
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@Ahmed.raza11711 · 2 years ago
I have read one of her books 'The forty rules of love', really interesting & exciting book, based on some morale lessons
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@sinakhalili431 · 2 years ago
I guess there is much to learn in this book. I hope I start reading it soon❤
@lwanay47 · 2 weeks ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQooWsdWFRc&t=533">8:53</a> back in time the people of my country of origin would take some soil from their country or from the house they grew up in or from the place where their heart belonged.
@AishaTenere · 4 years ago
I deeply enjoyed the complex, beautiful, invariably delicate and fascinating exchange of ideas between two writers I love and highly respect; thank you Lemèn and thank you Elif… ♥️♥️
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@bassantel-saeed7883 · 3 years ago
My forever favourite writer ❤
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