Publication Date: 30/04/2015 ISBN: 9780241972908 Category:

The Bastard of Istanbul

Elif Shafak

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 30/04/2015 ISBN: 9780241972908 Category:
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A gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

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

*** ELIF SHAFAK’S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***

Publisher Review

Overflows with a kitchen sink's worth of zany characters ... an entertaining and insightful ensemble novel that posits the universality of family, culture and coincidence -- (starred review) * Publishers Weekly * An astonishingly rich and lively story ... handled with an enchantingly light touch' Kirkus Reviews Tremendous exuberance . . . I do like a writer with a purpose * Margaret Forster * A brave and passionate novel * Paul Theroux *

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