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Reading Europe Episodes

    Elif Shafak

    Elif Shafak visits an Istanbul bookshop to see if modern Turkey is present on its shelves.

    Abdelkader Benali

    The Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali on bookshops as a source of refuge.

    Alba Arikha

    The Franco-American writer on immigration and an identity crisis in French fiction.

    Dorthe Nors

    Dorthe Nors asks if Danish fiction reflects the lives of those living outside Copenhagen.

    David Wagner

    David Wagner asks whether German literature still shows any signs of an east-west divide.