{"product_id":"the-bastard-of-istanbul-isbn-9780143112716","title":"The Bastard of Istanbul","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “vivid and entertaining” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (a Reese's Book Club Pick)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Istanbul \u003c\/i\u003etells 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Istanbul\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Zesty, imaginative . . . A Turkish version of Amy Tan's \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Shafak's writing is seductive. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Istanbul\u003c\/i\u003e portrays family as more than merely a function of genetics and fate, folding together history and fiction, the personal and the political into a thing of beauty.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[This] saucy, witty, dramatic, and affecting tale in the spirit of novels by Amy Tan, Julia Alvarez, and Bharati Mukherjee should prove irresistible to readers. . . . A grandly emphatic and spellbinding story.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Beautifully imagined . . . this wonderful new novel carried me away. And reality was different when I returned.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIF SHAFAK \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and\u003ci\u003e 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304032030949,"sku":"NP9780143112716","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143112716.jpg?v=1767738268","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-bastard-of-istanbul-isbn-9780143112716","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}