The Bastard of Istanbul + Yapışkanlı Not Kağıdı

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection One 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.; Twenty 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.; 'Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking.; will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' Sunday Express 'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' Irish Times 'Heartbreaking.; the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' VogueDaha fazla göster