![]() Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya’s mother Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. ![]() ![]() In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. ![]() From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families. ![]()
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