The Bastard of Istanbul (Record no. 67926)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01433nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780141031699 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Shafak , Elif |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Bastard of Istanbul |
| Statement of responsibility | Elif Shafak |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Books |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 357 Pages |
| Other physical details | 20x13 cm |
| -- | PB |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In a novel overflows with a kitchen sink's worth of zany characters, women are front and center: Asya Kazanci, an angst-ridden 19-year-old Istanbulite is the bastard of the title; her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha (who intended to have an abortion), has raised Asya among three generations of complicated and colorful female relations (including religious clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye). The Kazanci men either die young or take a permanent hike like Mustafa, Zeliha's beloved brother who immigrated to America years ago. Mustafa's Armenian-American stepdaughter, Armanoush, who grew up on her family's stories of the 1915 genocide, shows up in Istanbul looking for her roots and for vindication from her new Turkish family. The Kazanci women lament Armanoush's family's suffering, but have no sense of Turkish responsibility for it; Asya's boho cohorts insist there was no genocide at all. As the debate escalates, Mustafa arrives in Istanbul, and a long-hidden secret connecting the histories of the two families is revealed |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Turkey--Istanbul |
| -- | California--San Francisco |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | Fiction | 2025-09-28 | CRV/242/Donation/GPLM | 813.6 S524B 2008 | 70290 | Books |