The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak Material:Hard Cover But they have one mandate:

But they have one mandate: East must never meet West

His best friend

Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming

Something he can detect

discomfiture is not just because of the sun

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak Material:Hard Cover But they have one mandate:From one of Turkeys most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her countrys violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the bastard of the title, Asya, a nineteen year old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live