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The Bastard of Istanbul

Elif Shafak (Author)

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • 368 Page / Published 2015-04-30
  • Category: Fiction , Modern & contemporary fiction
  • ISBN: 9780241972908
  • Language: English
  • Format: PB
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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are....

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The trailblazing Elif Shafak tackles issues taboo in polite Turkish society with full-throttle exuberance and winning candour. The Bastard of Istanbul reverberates with dynamic set pieces and emotionally generous characterization, telling a deeply involving tale about strong women and buried secrets. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.