The Bastard of Istanbul

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection 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. 'Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' Sunday Express 'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' Irish Times 'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' Vogue

Product details

• Authors: Elif Shafak, Shafak Elif
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780241972908
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97290-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Viking
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Türkische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Istanbul, Arizona, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Armenia, Family life fiction, Turkey, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Relating to migrant groups / communities