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The bastard of istanbul kindle edition by shafak, elif. In a novel overflows with a kitchen sinks worth of zany characters, women are front and center. Shafaks fiction is both steeped in anatolian culture and profoundly modern in its questioning of tradition and orthodoxy. Elif shafak the bastard of istanbul an acclaimed book. Fortunately, the case was thrown out of court on the first day. When the book was published last year in turkey, shafak ended up facing a prison sentence because of what her fictional characters say about the massacre of armenians under the ottoman empire, a tragedy not officially recognized by the turkish.
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