Turkish novelist Elif Shafak’s second English language novel, THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, which tells the tale of two families, an exiled Armenian family living in San Francisco and the Kazancis of Istanbul, whose contemporary stories conjoin through a family secret that began with the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Turks and played out in the lives of their daughters today, to Paul Slovak at Viking in a preempt by agent Marly Rusoff (NA)
