The Bastard of Istanbul av Elif Shafak

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<p><b>A gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of <i>10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World</i></b><br><br><b>One 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.</b><br><br>Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya''s beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya''s Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey''s turbulent past begin to emerge.<br><br>''Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief