Two families, the Turkish Kazancis in Istanbul and the Armenian-American Tchakhmakhchians in San Francisco, are bound together by a buried, painful history. When Armanoush secretly travels to Istanbul to trace her grandmother's past, her search entwines with the life of rebellious young Asya Kazanci, drawing both families toward long-hidden truths about memory, identity, and the legacy of the Armenian genocide.
Books mentioned in The Bastard of Istanbul (14)
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief, Borges's Collected Fictions, Narcissus and Goldmund...”
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief, Borges's Collected Fictions, Narcissus and Goldmund...”
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse: “Books rained on top of one another: ...Borges's Collected Fictions, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Landscape Painted with Tea...”
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief...”
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief, Borges's Collected Fictions...”
Landscape Painted with Tea by Milorad Pavic: “...Narcissus and Goldmund, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Landscape Painted with Tea, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, and two by Milan Kundera...”
The Management of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee: “Books rained on top of one another: The Aleph and Other Stories, A Confederacy of Dunces, A Frolic of His Own, The Management of Grief, Borges's Collected Fictions...”
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges: “she reflected on the "other I" in Borges's Labyrinths as she watched the wispy fog drift up off the horizon.”
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “a brawny soldier with beady eyes suspiciously scanned through Rousseau's Social Contract... Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.”