An Armenian family, a Turkish family, United States, Turkey, past and present and the unspoken atrocities of what was done… « The Bastard of Istanbul » is not a light, entertaining reading. I have enormous admiration for the unbiased way Shafak tells us the story with love and respect to all concerned.
Love von Beauty von Love 
This book has been on my TBR list for a while, but I’ve not had time to find it in Turkish to read it (assuming that that was the original, as it’s set there and she is Turkish, although I see that she often works with a Turkish translator on her books like Usta ve Ben, which was apparently written in English).
sorry: Ustam ve Ben