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The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif Shafak
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Description for The Bastard of Istanbul
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241972908
SKU
V9780241972908
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99-99
About Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-six languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's last novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award ... Read more
Reviews for The Bastard of Istanbul
Unquestionably an ambitious book, exuberant and teeming . . . a novel crammed with characters and themes, not unlike Istanbul itself
Guardian
Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking . . . will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages
Sunday Express
Heartbreaking . . . the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book
Vogue
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Guardian
Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking . . . will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages
Sunday Express
Heartbreaking . . . the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book
Vogue
... Read more