Descripción
"One of the most popular and recognized contemporary Turkish writers. --El País More than a city, Istanbul seems like a large ship on an uncertain route, laden with passengers of different nationalities, languages, and religions. This is the image that accompanies young Armanoush, who travels from Arizona to visit the city for the first time and discover her origins. What she doesn't yet know is that her Armenian family and that of her Turkish stepfather were linked in the past, and that the common life of the two peoples was once peaceful. Soon Armanoush will meet this peculiar clan, where there are only women because the men chose to die young or go far away to forget their sins. At the center of the portrait appears Zeliha, the rebellious woman who one day became pregnant and decided not to abort. This is how Asya was born, who is now nineteen years old, and will soon be Armanoush's friend. The friendship between the two young women will end up revealing an old and murky story, a relationship that was born and died in pure desperation, but the ladies of the family will know how to resolve even this mishap. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A "vivid and entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick)
"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." --USA Today 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. The Bastard of Istanbul tells 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.
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 11/22/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.88w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9786073817554
ISBN10: 607381755X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." --USA Today 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. The Bastard of Istanbul tells 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.
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 11/22/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.88w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9786073817554
ISBN10: 607381755X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Elif Shafak nació en Estrasburgo en 1971, de padres turcos. El trabajo de la madre, una diplomática, la obligó a viajar y a residir en distintos países, entre ellos España. Actualmente vive con su familia entre Estambul y Londres, colabora con distintos periódicos turcos, ingleses y estadunidenses y es un miembro muy activo del London Speaker Bureau.