The Bastard Of Istanbul

The Bastard of Istanbul LONGLISTED FOR ORANGE FICTION PRIZE BOOK FICTION World Viking 2007

By Elif Shafak BOOKS Jonny Geller, +44 (0)20 7393 4492, [email protected] TRANSLATION RIGHTS Daisy Meyrick, +44 (0)20 7393 4425, [email protected] TRANSLATION RIGHTS Roxane Edouard, +44 (0)20 7393 4491, [email protected]

Turkish Title: Baba ve Pic 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 Johnny 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. Filled 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.

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