Review: The Bastard Of Istanbul

I have just finished reading the bastard of Istanbul. This is my third novel from the writer Elif Shafaq, before that I read forty rules of love, and the three daughters of Eve. Forty rules of love captured my soul and bind me to read more about Rumi and Shamz of Tabriz.

I believe that when you write you expose your personality in front of others. It’s like looking in a mirror and making your own sketch. After reading three novels from Elif Shafaq I have observed some of her writing expressions. Here are they;

Religion; religion has been discussed in all three of these books. But whenever it comes to orthodox cultural violence or any kind of religious wrong doings, she has always come up with bold and fearless opinion.

Dark side of Ottoman Empire; the writer belongs to turkey and without any hesitation she has talked about Armenian genocide with the hands of Turks and how families have suffered.

Blunt Women; Women have a strong, courageous, ambitious role.

Agnostic; somewhere there is always a character who is a rebel or agnostic. A struggle has been fought among disbelieves, dubious and suspicious function of religion.

Though I like all these touch, a mixture of interesting facts,

history, religion, and all. But the first half I felt boring and stopped reading. But leaving a book in middle is like a haunted book that chases you everywhere. Hence after stepping in third quarter when characters start connecting with each other my interest begins. Therefore i only liked the shocking ending besides that I really appreciate the writer for linking a chain of characters effortlessly.