The Bastard of Istanbul

LONGLISTED FOR ORANGE FICTION PRIZE

BOOK
FICTION
World Viking
2007

By Elif Shafak Translation Rights Sold

Albanian Bota Shqiptare
BOOKS Jonny Geller, +44 (0)20 7393 4492, gelleroffice@curtisbrown.co.uk
TRANSLATION RIGHTS Daisy Meyrick, +44 (0)20 7393 4425, daisy@curtisbrown.co.uk Arabic Dar al-Adab
TRANSLATION RIGHTS Roxane Edouard, +44 (0)20 7393 4491, roxane@curtisbrown.co.uk Armenian Antares Media
Holding

Turkish Title: Baba ve Pic Bosnian BuyBook

Bulgarian Egmont Bulgaria
Publishing House
As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like
Catalan Ara Llibres
part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the
Chinese Complex The Eurasian
past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old
Publishing Group
woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves
Chinese Simple Shanghai 99
Johnny Cash and the French existentialists.
Croatian Hena Com
Czech Agite/Fra
The Bastard of Istanbul tells the story of their two families-and a secret
Danish Underskoven
connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland.
Dutch Uitgeverij De Geus
Filled with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is
about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the Finnish Gummerus
Publishers
desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.
French Editions Phebus
Georgian Palitra Media
German Kein & Aber
Greek Livanis Publishing
Hebrew Kinneret Zmora
Bitan
Hungarian Europa Konyvkiado
Italian Rizzoli Editore
Lithuanian Tyto Alba
Macedonian TRI Publishing
Centre
Norwegian Aschehoug & Co
Polish Wydawnictwo
Literackie
Portuguese (PT) Jacarandá
Portuguese (BR) Nova Fronteira
Romanian Editura Polirom
Serbian Laguna
Slovak Slovart spol
Slovene Sanje Publishers
Spanish Lumen
Swedish Albert Bonniers
Forlag

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