The Bastard Of Istanbul

Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking ... will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' One rainy afternoon in istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion,' she. announces. She is ııiııeteeri years old and uiımarrh' What happens that afternoon will change her life.

Tvventy years later, Asya Kazancı lives with her exten( family in istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, ali th Kazancı men die in their early forties, so it is a house f r women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mot. Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondria obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-n Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden famil) ?d with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge