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Elif Shafak
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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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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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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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