Bastard of Istanbul The

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A violent secret that hides beneath the streets of Istanbul threatens the peace of two interwoven families

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion,' she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that day will change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.

Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. A mysterious curse causes all the men to die by the age of forty-one, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241972908
Published: April 2015

Number of pages: 368
Width: 130 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 25 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd