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The Bastard of Istanbul

Review by Nouritza Matossian

Published: September 8 2007 01:43 | Last updated: September 8 2007 01:43

The Bastard of Istanbul
By Elif Shafak
Viking Press £16.99, 360 pages
FT bookshop price: £13.59

At last a contemporary novel tackles the greatest taboo in modern Turkey: official denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide – the 20th century’s first holocaust – and its legacy.

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