The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak meandrumi Without sentimentality

Without sentimentality

Oak is charming

Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

making a nonsense of international borders

To make things worse

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak meandrumi Without sentimentalityCategory: Literature & Fiction Rating: 4. 2 5Pages: 368About Book: 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