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The Bastard of Istanbul Leigh and people can be inspiredFrom one of Turkey? s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country? s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the ? bastard? of the title, Asya, a nineteen year old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who