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Elif Shafak

THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL

In THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, Turkish author Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale about the tangled history of two families – one Turkish and one Armenian American. Asya is a nineteen year old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French existentialists. She lives in an extended household in Istanbul, where she has been raised, with no father in...

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THE SAINT OF INCIPIENT INSANITIES

Elif Shafak, an outstanding name in the young generation of Turkish authors, is a literary superstar in Turkey where her previous four novels have won every award available to a writer. THE SAINT OF INCIPIENT INSANITIES is her first book written in English and is set on a college campus in New England. It features a cast of foreign students trying to make a place for themselves in America...

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The Backlist

  PINHAN (The Sufi)
SEHRIN AYNALARI (The Mirrors of the City)
MAHREM (The Gaze in English translation)
BIT PALAS (The Flea Palace in English translation)

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