I'm aware that this is a rather scathing review, but I'm highly disappointed with the novel | |
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Has Safak's language become too American? It almost reads like fictionalised dummies guide to Rumi | Whatever the source of the problem is, I'm afraid I found the story superficial, weak and cliched |
Elif Safak is Turkish, right? I think what the author tries to do with this novel and unfortunately fails is to show a treasure of Eastern spiritualism to the American reader.
25Add to applications Intellectual property is reserved for the authors mentioned on the books and the library is not responsible for the ideas of the authors Old and forgotten books that have become past to preserve Arab and Islamic heritage are published, and books that their authors are accepted to published | Is she stuck between the liminality of the American and the Turkish? Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author" |
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Shams and Rumi speak American, and Aziz is definitely not Scottish | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits |
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