The Bastard of Istanbul by Shafak, Elif staff picks

The Bastard of Istanbul by Shafak, Elif staff picksAuthor: Shafak, Elif Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 6 June 2019 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Essentials' series. Paperback 368 pages 111 x 179 x 27 198g 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. Twenty years later, Asya

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