From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect\'s Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize.
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Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul.
What happens that afternoon will change her life.
She is nineteen years old and unmarried. \'I need to have an abortion\', she announces.
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor\'s surgery.
From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect\'s Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize