Once there was; once there wasn't.
God's creatures were as plentiful as grains
And talking too much was a sin...
___The preamble to a Turkish tale. . . And to an Armenian one.
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The Bastard of Istanbul
DuchoweThis story is originally written by the author Elif Shafak. I do not own the rights to this book. Elif Shafak is one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken novelists. She was born in 1971 and is the author of six novels, most recently "The Saint o...
The Bastard Of Istanbul
Once there was; once there wasn't.
God's creatures were as plentiful as grains
And talking too much was a sin...
___The preamble to a Turkish tale. . . And to an Armenian one.
