The bastard of Istanbul

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Label

The bastard of Istanbul

Statement of responsibility

Elif Shafak

Creator

• trueShafak, Elif, 1971-

Subject

• trueNineteen-year-old women
• trueDomestic fiction
• Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Fiction
• trueFamily secrets
• Armenians -- California | San Francisco -- Fiction
• trueArmenian Americans
• trueSan Francisco, California
• trueArmenians in Turkey
• trueMysticism
• trueMultiracial women
• trueArmenian massacres, 1915-1923
• trueIstanbul, Turkey
• trueSatirical fiction
• trueTattooing
• trueWomen's role
• trueSingle mothers
• trueCulture conflict
• Armenians -- Turkey -- Fiction
• Armenian Americans -- Fiction
• Istanbul (Turkey) -- Fiction
• trueFemale friendship
• trueWomen -- Istanbul, Turkey
• trueBrothers and sisters
• trueMothers and daughters

Genre

• Fiction
• trueDomestic fiction
• trueSatirical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French existentialists. She lives in an extended household in Istanbul, where she has been raised, with no father in sight, by her mother, the beautiful and irreverent Zeliha Kazanci, and by Zeliha's three older sisters: Banu, a devout woman who has rediscovered herself as a clairvoyant: Cevriye, a prim, widowed high school teacher: and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their lone brother, Mustafa, left Turkey many years earlier and now lives in Tucson with an American woman named Rose, who has one daughter from a previous marriage to an Armenian man. This daughter, Armanoush, is nineteen and splits her time between Tucson and San Francisco, where her father's family lives."
• "As an Armenian living in America, Armanoush feels that 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. She secretly flies to Istanbul, finds the Kazanci sisters, and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is eventually uncovered that links the two families together and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres." "Filled with humour and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the tension between the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult