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A Migrating Bird: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
A Migrating Bird: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
A Migrating Bird: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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A Migrating Bird: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

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A short story by Elif Shafak from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.

In ‘A Migrating Bird’, a young Turkish woman is drawn to a Dutch student on foreign exchange at her university.

Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

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Release dateApr 21, 2016
ISBN9780008173418
A Migrating Bird: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into 50 languages. Her latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; and chosen Blackwell's Book of the Year. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people "who will give you a much needed lift of the heart". Shafak has judged numerous literary prizes, and chaired the Wellcome Prize and is presently judging the Orwell Prize. www.elifshafak.com

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    Es una joya de historia. bellamente descrita desde los ojos de una niña que se hace amiga de un niño extranjero que quiere aprender a hablar turco. La ingenuidad de como nace el amor es muy hermoso.
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A Migrating Bird - Elif Shafak

A Migrating Bird

Elif Shafak

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A short story from the collection

Reader,

I Married Him:

Stories inspired

by

Jane Eyre

edited by

Tracy Chevalier

Copyright

Published by The Borough Press

An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

Foreword © Tracy Chevalier 2016

A Migrating Bird © Elif Shafak 2016

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

Cover design by Heike Schüssler © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

Jacket photograph © Dan Saelinger/Trunk Archive

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical events and figures, are the works of the authors’ imaginations.

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