The Bastard of Istanbul

A "vivid and entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author...
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Author: Elif Shafak
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The Bastard of Istanbul by Shafak, Elif

The Bastard of Istanbul

$29.16

The Bastard of Istanbul

$29.16
Author: Elif Shafak
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A "vivid and entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick)

"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." --USA Today

As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. The Bastard of Istanbul tells the story of their two families--and a secret connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland. Filed with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.

Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143112716
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/17/2008 pg. 24

About the Author
ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the U.S. and the UK. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.

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