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To Bastardo Tis Konstantinoupolis

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Author: Elif Safak
Format: Softcover
Pages: 436
Language: Greek

Zelicha Kazantzis decided twenty years ago to bring into this life her illegitimate daughter, Asia, and to keep secret the name of the father. Asia is growing up in the same house with her mother, grandmother, great grandmother and three aunts. Four generations of Kazantzis women living together in a small section of Constantinople, as the men of the family are dying at a young age. This cursed life forced Mustafa, the only brother of Zelicha to leave Turkey and settle in America, where he married an American named Rose, the mother of a young girl named Armanous and the former spouse of an Armenian diaspora member whose extended family where all refugees from Turkey. When Armanous decides to seek the Armenian roots, she travels secretly to Istanbul and is hosted at the Kazantzis home. She becomes friends with Asia, who talks to her about the genocide of Armenians that remains silent in Turkish history and through Asia'a aunt Banous the family uncovers secrets and tragedies which explain alot...

A stirring recount of the tragical Armenian genocide.

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