{"product_id":"9780241972908","title":"The Bastard of Istanbul","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Elif Shafak\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 April 2015 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 25mm | 256g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange WorldOne rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion,' she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. A mysterious curse causes all the men to die by the age of 41, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But 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' Sunday Express'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' Irish Times'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' Vogue*** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elif Shafak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261320900933,"sku":"9780241972908","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241972908.jpg?v=1763038327","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241972908","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}