{"product_id":"the-bastard-of-istanbul","title":"The Bastard of Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Istanbul\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and clashing cultural identities in the mystical and mysterious city of Istanbul. \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'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780141031699\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Shafak, Elif","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £4.31","offer_id":47962335346865,"sku":"SB-0141031697-C3","price":4.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0141031697.jpg?v=1790135522","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-bastard-of-istanbul","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}