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The stories we tell, with Elif Shafak

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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The Bastard of Istambo A, a Novel by a Young Armenian American Woman

I find your words so important. I also think that there isa generational difference. The oldest gen ations, the ones who have gone through the biggest dramas, you know, they carry all those memories inside, but they don't necessarily have a language. They don't maybe even know how to talk about it. And it's very painful. We have a sense about that. So i have me many fances armenian american youth who have old memories, or who carry the memories of their grandparents. Which to me is very interesting. Then it's the third or the fourth generations, the youngest in the families, i think, who are asking the most important questions about identity

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