![]() ![]() ![]() Towards the end I found myself drawing a family tree of the characters in an attempt to get the convoluted relationships straight in my head. But what might be invigorating in a city can, in a novel, be a bit bewildering. So much for the brouhaha what of the book? This is a cluttered carpetbag of a novel, crammed with characters and themes, not unlike Istanbul itself. The incident generated international concern. In the event, the charges were thrown out but Shafak's first pregnancy was overshadowed by the possibility of a three-year prison term. Its author, Elif Shafak, was accused by the Turkish government of 'insulting Turkishness' and could have been the first writer to be jailed in Turkey for fictitious words spoken by an invented person. ![]() Written in English, the novel was published first in Turkey, in translation, where it rapidly became a bestseller. The bastard of Istanbul arrives already weighed down by baggage. ![]()
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