The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
28 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Fiction, Turkish
Even before this book hit U.S. shelves, French-born Turkish author Elif Shafak was charged with insulting "Turkishness" in violation of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code because one of her characters refers to the large-scale massacre of Armenians that began in 1915 in Turkey as...