Türkische Autoren

Auf der deutschen Buchmesse in Frankfurt ist heuer die Türkei das Gastland - und die Türkei wird immer eines meiner Lieblingsurlaubsländer bleiben. Ich habe ja schon einige türkische Autoren getroffen, und der türkische Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk gehört ja zu meinen Lieblingsschriftstellern - da wird mir das neue Buch bestimmt auch gefallen.

Elif SHAFAK
The Bastard of Istanbul

Synopsis: One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. "I need to have an abortion," she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the Kazanci men die early in their forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to visit to trace her family's heritage, long-hidden secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.