by Elif Shafak · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426417077
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«La bastarda de Estambul» is the historical novel and family saga by Turkish writer Elif Shafak, published by Lumen in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
When Armanoush, a young Armenian-American woman from Arizona, arrives in Istanbul to meet her stepfather's family, the secrets shared by a Turkish and an Armenian family begin to come to light, united by the tragedy that separated both peoples at the beginning of the 20th century and that refers to the denied Armenian genocide.
Published in Turkish as «Baba ve Piç» in 2006, the Spanish edition, translated by Sonia Tapia Sánchez, came out in 2009 within Lumen's Narrativa collection.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas, with an interest in historical memory and the shared past of Turks and Armenians.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist, and activist.
