Elif Shafak on Anna Karenina
Elif Shafak first glimpsed Tolstoy's Anna Karenina on a school bookshelf. Years later, she got to read it. Today, Elif imagines what would happen if Anna were to meet her creator.
Five leading writers pick a novel they love and then write an original piece of fiction imagining what happened to the characters after the story ends.
Award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak first glimpsed Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina on a bookshelf at school. It was only years later that she managed to get her hands on a copy. The experience stirred her soul. The romance was raw, wrong and real. But the book's ending came as a surprise.
For this Boxing Day edition, Elif imagines what would happen if Anna were able to meet her creator, Tolstoy himself, after the novel's final page.
Producer: Camellia Sinclair
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- Boxing Day 2019 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
- Thu 5 Aug 2021 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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