The Bastard of Istanbul
- Author
- Elif Shafak
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670038343
Istanbul (turkey)_fictionFiction_historical_generalSan Francisco (calif.)_fiction
A second English-language tale by the author of The Saint of Incipient Insanities finds Turkish teen Asya coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.