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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents  An Afternoon w
 ith Elif Shafak     
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special afternoon with one of today’s most infl
 uential and much-loved literary voices. \n \nInternationally-acclaimed n
 ovelist Elif Shafak returns to celebrate her extraordinary new novel\, I
 n One Brief Moment All Eternity. Spanning decades and continents\, from 
 revolutionary 19th-century France to Istanbul\, Egypt and Beirut\, this 
 luminous and deeply moving story explores creativity and resistance in t
 imes of political upheaval and war. Reimagining the life of Gustave Flau
 bert through the real and fictional women who shaped him\, Elif Shafak b
 uilds a fascinating bridge between Western prose and Eastern poetry and 
 offers a powerful meditation on literature’s enduring role in a fracture
 d world.  \n \nElif Shafak is a multi-award-winning British-Turkish nove
 list and storyteller. She has published 21 books\, translated into almos
 t 60 languages\, including 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World a
 nd The Island of Missing Trees. A President of the Royal Society of Lite
 rature\, she has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is a st
 rong advocate for women's rights\, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expressi
 on.   
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LOCATION:RNCM (Theatre)\, 124 Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M13 9RD
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