Istanbul Bastard. Shafak E.

The novel "Istanbul Bastard" represents the history of two families, Turkish and Armenian, divided by dramatic events in their homeland at the beginning of the twentieth century. None of the members of these large families even suspect that the tragedy of the past closely tied them with invisible threads. But then an American of Armenian origin Armanush, who wants to unravel a ball of family secrets and understand himself, comes to Istanbul from San Francisco. In Istanbul, she stops at the Turkish relatives of his stepfather, where she meets her peer nineteen -year -old Asia. Girls quickly find a common language, despite the fact that they are separated by education, education, a different attitude to historical truth.