{"id":8278,"date":"2015-10-08T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:48:11","slug":"review-the-bastard-of-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/10\/08\/review-the-bastard-of-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Bastard of Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1832797\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1347774580m\/1832797.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Bastard of Istanbul\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1832797\">The Bastard of Istanbul<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6542440\">Elif Shafak<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223613658\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      This was a book I noticed was on a banned book list and ended up being one of two I started during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/bannedbooksweek\" rel=\"nofollow\">ALA&#8217;s Banned Books Week<\/a>. The author, Elif \u00c5\u017eafak, was sued by a Turkey prosecutor for &#8220;insulting Turkishness&#8221; by writing about Armenian genocide as part of the fall of the Ottoman Empire in this novel. She probably expected this reaction as one minor character faced a prison sentence for having drawn a government official as a penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey bridging Europe and Asia has elements of both in its culture. \u00c5\u017eafak demonstrates this contradiction through her tale by contrasting American and Muslim cultural views.<\/p>\n<p>In approaching the climax I hoped for a surprise that it would turn out as something else. But, no, it completely deflated me as low as the hardest of books I have ever read.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223613658\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a book I noticed was on a banned book list and ended up being one of two I started during ALA&#8217;s Banned Books Week. The author, Elif \u00c5\u017eafak, was sued by a Turkey prosecutor for &#8220;insulting Turkishness&#8221; by writing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-29w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}