{"product_id":"9780241986448","title":"The Bastard of Istanbul (Penguin Essentials)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kaznci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Wonderfully magical, incredible, breathtaking...will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' Sunday Express\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful book, the finest I have read about Turkey' Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Heartbreaking...the beauty of Islam pervades Shafak's book' Vogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49657595134200,"sku":"EB_LI0700_E05-01_SYDNEY","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780241986448-1.jpg?v=1786609721","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780241986448","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}