Claire Nicholls
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
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So, for various reasons, both men find themselves in Istanbul.
I talked in the introduction about the timing here.
This is really important.
Why did you want to set the majority of this story in Istanbul in this moment in time?
And Istanbul, right, became something of like a holding bay for people who were coming from the Middle East and waiting to get to Europe.
Is that the case?
And part of living a life, of course, is falling in love.
An interesting part of this novel, No God But Us, is that we see both men experience that rush of first love, you know, the kind of beautiful wonder of it and the kind of pain of first love.
And then we see Delbar become instantly obsessed with Mansour when he meets him.
You know, Delbar's six years younger.
He's looking at this beautiful man.
And he is just as besotted as we once saw Mansour being.
And there's a pain there in, I think, us watching Delbar throw himself into this, having just seen Mansour's experience of first love in previous chapters.
I mentioned that this is your first novel.
What was the moment like, Babak, when you got to hold No God But Us in your hands for the first time?
Well, it's been such a pleasure to meet you today.
Your novel is No God But Us.
It's published by Ultimo Press.
But, Bakhsaid, great to meet you today.
And that's the book show for now.
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