The family is hard hit by Turkish political extremism, but Peri is able, nonetheless, to apply and gain acceptance at Oxford. Peri grows up in a household in Istanbul split between her mother's religiosity and her father's secularism. Shafak is not afraid to approach the difficult issues, here approaching the rights of Muslim women, Turkish politics and debated about God. In Three Daughters of Eve, she has given us a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart.Įlif Shafak is the number one bestselling novelist in her native Turkey, and her work is translated and celebrated around the world.
Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. As a young woman there, she had become friends with the charming, adventurous Shirin, a fully assimilated Iranian girl, and Mona, a devout Egyptian-American. Competing in Peri's mind however are the memories invoked by her almost-lost polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill-begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. A relic from a past-and a love-Peri had tried desperately to forget. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag.
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
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