--- product_id: 76503096 title: "The Bastard of Istanbul" brand: "elif shafak" price: "S/.45" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/76503096-the-bastard-of-istanbul store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # The Bastard of Istanbul **Brand:** elif shafak **Price:** S/.45 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Bastard of Istanbul by elif shafak - **How much does it cost?** S/.45 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/76503096-the-bastard-of-istanbul) ## Best For - elif shafak enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elif shafak brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A gripping and beautiful novel from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World 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 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. 'Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' Sunday Express 'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' Irish Times 'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' Vogue *** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY , IS AVAILABLE NOW *** ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #739 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) | | Dimensions | 12.8 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm | | Edition | Latest | | Generic Name | BOOK | | Importer | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd | | Isbn 10 | 0241972906 | | Isbn 13 | 978-0241972908 | | Item Weight | 257 g | | Language | English | | Net Quantity | 500.00 Grams | | Packer | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd | | Print Length | 368 pages | | Publication Date | 30 April 2015 | | Publisher | Penguin | ## Images ![The Bastard of Istanbul - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71UqwEZZVgL.jpg) ![The Bastard of Istanbul - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71PPrSSlHML.jpg) ![The Bastard of Istanbul - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91v8Cs-R6LL.jpg) ![The Bastard of Istanbul - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ATyEaDpkL.jpg) ![The Bastard of Istanbul - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71OW9YEAhRL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Captivating Novel that weaves together culture, identity, and history! *by on Reviewed in India 17 January 2024* Bastards of Istanbul by @shafakelif is a captivating novel that weaves together culture, identity, and history in the vibrant city of Istanbul.The story revolves around two families, each with its own secrets and emotional baggage. Asya Kazancı, a young woman living in Istanbul, is the focal point of the narrative. Raised by her rebellious and enigmatic mother, she grapples with her identity and family heritage while harbouring a deep curiosity about her heritage. Meanwhile, across the world in Arizona, an Armenian-American woman named Armanoush seeks answers about her family's past, leading her to the Kazancı family in Istanbul.Through richly drawn characters, the book explores complex family dynamics, tackles sensitive historical issues like the Armenian Genocide, and delves into contemporary themes like tradition versus modernity and women's rights.Shafak has beautifully crafted this intellectually stimulating novel that skillfully examines family, heritage, and the universal quest for self-discovery. Shafak's storytelling skills shine through, making this book a highly recommended read for anyone who enjoys thought-provoking fiction with a strong sense of cultural immersion. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book that earns its weight! *by on Reviewed in India 7 March 2026* ---@elifshafak Just finished *The Bastards of Istanbul.*Elif, you did not write a novel. You wrote a city that breathes, grieves, and refuses to apologise for either.What undoes you first is Zeliha — that furious, tender, tattooed woman who carries her secret not as shame but as armour. She does not ask to be understood. She simply exists, in full — defiant, wounded, magnetic. And then Asya, her daughter in everything but name, who has turned the absence of a past into a philosophy of indifference — because indifference is the only thing that doesn't hurt on demand.Two women. Same blood. Same silence. Different ways of surviving it.And then you bring Armanoush across the ocean — an Armenian girl carrying her community's grief like a dowry she never asked for — into that Istanbul household. Two families. Two histories. One table. You don't preach communal harmony. You don't need to. You simply seat them together, feed them, and let the walls between them develop cracks — not through grand gestures, but through the terrifying ordinariness of shared meals and late nights and the realisation that the other side's pain is just as old and just as real as your own. That is the most radical act of humanity — not a declaration, but a dinner.And running underneath all of it — so quietly you almost miss it — is your conversation with death. The Kazanci men who die young, as if on schedule. The curse treated with dark humour, almost a shrug. Death in this book is not tragedy — it is punctuation. It arrives without drama, without permission, folding itself into the ordinary. Which is precisely how you remind us that mortality is not an event. It is a condition. We are all living inside it, trading recipes and old wounds, pretending the clock is not running.Istanbul is the only city I know that has been conquered, burned, mourned, and reinvented so many times that it has simply stopped distinguishing between loss and identity. You have written that city from the inside.*The Bastard of Istanbul* is not about what happened in 1915. It is about what happens to people — and peoples — who must decide, every single day, whether to remember or survive.Sometimes, you showed us, they are the same thing.#ElifShafak #TheBastardOfIstanbul #BookReview #Istanbul #Literature #WomensVoices #Humanity ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Such an incredible read *by on Reviewed in India 23 July 2023* This beautiful work of fiction by Elif Shafak revolves around Asya Kazanci & Armanoush sharing a similar genetic heritage. Enbodying in itself an absolute vibrance of Turkish as well as Armanian legacy, the book carries a spectacular brightness within itself. Asya is depicted to be raised by Kazanci females, surrounded by all her aunts, Petite Ma & Grandmother Gulsum in an Ethnic Turkish household. While Asya's distant cousin Armanoush, an Armenian American being raised by an American Mother and an Arbanian father along with the complete Tchakhmakhchian family. Filled with the mention of mouthwatering Turkish cuisines, canary & cats makes the reader feel transported to Istanbul. The plot finds itself travelling along intermingled family stories, carrying mysteries and secrets of past alongwith. Full of abundant twists and turns this book categorises as an interesting read. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Bastard of Istanbul - The Forty Rules of Love - Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - Paperback --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pe/products/76503096-the-bastard-of-istanbul](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/76503096-the-bastard-of-istanbul) --- *Product available on Desertcart Peru* *Store origin: PE* *Last updated: 2026-09-15*