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The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak | Literature & Fiction
Registered by wingokyrhoewing of Athens, Attica Greece on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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status (set by lydoula): to be read


3 journalers for this copy...

Journal Entry 1 by wingokyrhoewing from Athens, Attica Greece on Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. "I want an abortion," she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.
Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush Tchakhmakhchian comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.  

Journal Entry 2 by wingokyrhoewing at Athens, Attica Greece on Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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BOOK RING

Please PM or post in the forum if you are interested, and include
a) Your location
b) Where you are willing to post the book after you read it
(International, or only within N. America / Asia / Australia / Europe, etc.)

BookRing participants :
- Icila (in France, posts anywhere)
- lydoula (in Belgium, posts anywere) <-- book is on its way here
- VictoriaWagtail (in Sweden, posts internationally, prefers not to be first on list)
- ETMadrid (in U.K., posts preferably within Europe, not first on list)
- your name here if would like to join this ring
- lunatum (in Finland, posts internationally, prefers towards end of list)
- penelopewanders (in Switzerland, posts within Europe, prefers towards end of list)
- vassilka (in Greece, prefers end of list)

~ ~ ~ ~ > Please make a journal entry when you receive the book.
~ ~ ~ ~ > Please read and pass on the book within two months of receipt. If you can't do this for any reason, please PM me to let me know.
~ ~ ~ ~ > When you are done reading, contact the next reader via PM for their address. Also make another journal entry (or edit your first one) to share your comments about the book.

(forum post) 

Journal Entry 3 by wingokyrhoewing at Bookring, By Post -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Released 1 mo ago (1/18/2012 UTC) at Bookring, By Post -- Controlled Releases

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

On its way by post to Icila, who's kindly agreed to start the ring. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 4 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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The book arrived yesterday. I'll read it soon. Thanks okyrhoe. 

Journal Entry 5 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Thursday, February 09, 2012

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Regarding the family: an enjoyable fairy-tale. I'm well travelled but I never have gone to Turkey so far. I know Istanbul is fabulous and this book gives a feeling to wanting to visit.
As a child I had an armenian familly as neighbourgs, I went to a wedding in the armenian church in Paris, I never heard anything concerning their past.


I already have lydoula's address. 

Journal Entry 6 by wingIcilawing at La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire France on Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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Released 1 wk ago (2/14/2012 UTC) at La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire France

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On its way to lydoula in Belgium. Enjoy ! 

Journal Entry 7 by lydoula at Ixelles / Elsene, Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium on Monday, February 20, 2012

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It arrived today!Thanx Icilla for sending it :) 



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