31 October 2009 - 01H12
- feminism - literature - Turkey

Elif Shafak, Turkish writer

Bestselling feminist writer Elif Shafak has published her sixth novel. “The Bastard of Istanbul” is the story of two families divided between two cities, Tucson and Istanbul; and between two national identities, Turkish and Armenian.


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