From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families

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. 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. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazanci sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres. Full of vigorous, unforgettable female characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is a bold, powerful tale that will confirm Shafak as a rising star of international fiction.

埃利芙•沙法剋（Elif Shafak）

土耳其小說傢、專欄作傢、演講傢和學者，以敢言著稱。評論稱她是“當代土耳其乃至世界文壇最與眾不同的聲音之一”。

沙法剋用英語和土耳其語兩種語言寫作，已經齣版12本書，其中8本是長篇小說，作品被翻譯成39種語言。她突破類型，將東西方文學傳統融進敘述中，講述瞭無數關於女性、少數民族、亞文化、青年地球村人的故事。

她的首部小說《神秘主義者》獲土耳其神秘文學最高榮譽魯米奬。《凝視》獲土耳其作傢聯盟最佳長篇小說奬。《跳蚤宮》進入英國《獨立報》最佳外國小說短名單。

自傳體作品《黑奶》講述作為作傢和為人母的艱難和美麗，獲得評論界和讀者的一緻贊揚。《愛的四十條守則》在土耳其售齣75萬本，獲法國外國文學特彆奬，並入圍IMPAC都柏林國際文學奬。最新長篇《榮譽》獲得各年齡層各種背景讀者的一緻歡迎，同時入圍曼•亞洲文學奬和女性文學奬。

除寫小說外，沙法剋還是著名的政治學學者，是歐盟外交關係委員會創始成員。她還在《經濟學傢》、《紐約時報》及土耳其國內媒體上開設專欄，計有專欄集三種。

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