{"product_id":"9780241972908","title":"Elif Shafak - The Bastard of Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Elif Shafak. Themes include Fiction, Historical, Literary, Women, Family Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003e10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' \u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElif Shafak's latest novel \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is available for pre-order now\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58785359823222,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780241972908.jpg?v=1789988749","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780241972908","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}