The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak meandrumi making a nonsense of international

making a nonsense of international borders

But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild

Without sentimentality

This is Europe: a continent whose identity emerged not so much by virtue of geographic or ethnic continuity

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak meandrumi making a nonsense of internationalCategory: Literature & Fiction Rating: 4. 2 5Pages: 368About Book: 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 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