{"product_id":"the-bastard-of-istanbul-by-elif-shafak","title":"The Bastard Of Istanbul By Elif Shafak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA “vivid and entertaining” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(a Reese's Book Club Pick)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Bastard of Istanbul\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etells the story of their two families--and a secret connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland. Filed with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50041493291247,"sku":null,"price":349.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/4423\/0639\/files\/29777277.jpg?v=1782819475","url":"https:\/\/thebookbank.pk\/products\/the-bastard-of-istanbul-by-elif-shafak","provider":"thebookbank","version":"1.0","type":"link"}