{"product_id":"the-bastard-of-istanbul-elif-shafak-9780241972908","title":"The Bastard of Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOmschrijving\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' \u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*** PRE-ORDER ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL \u003ci\u003eIN ONE BRIEF MOMENT ALL ETERNITY \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW ***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePromotionele informatie\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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 is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProductspecificaties\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuteur:\u003c\/strong\u003e Elif Shafak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUitgever:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books Ltd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBindwijze:\u003c\/strong\u003e B-format paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVerschijningsdatum:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015-04-30\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAantal pagina's:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780241972908\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThema:\u003c\/strong\u003e Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/strong\u003e FICTION \/ Literary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOver de auteur\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's previous novel, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, was the UK's bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, amongst others, and she is currently nominated for 'Author of the Year' at the British Book Awards. Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intertaal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56354483568980,"sku":"9780241972908","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/0538\/0692\/files\/9780241972908.jpg?v=1783583182","url":"https:\/\/intertaalid.nl\/fi\/products\/the-bastard-of-istanbul-elif-shafak-9780241972908","provider":"Intertaal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}