Three Daughters of Eve

Author(s): Elif Shafak

Fiction.

Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past - and a love - Peri had tried desperately to forget. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. To her home with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about Islam and femininity. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart.


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Exuberant, epic and comic, fantastical and realistic ... like all good stories it conveys deeper meanings about human experience -- Financial Times on 'The Architect's Apprentice' Exotic, evocative and utterly gripping -- The Times on 'Honour' Vivid storytelling that explores the darkest aspects of faith and love -- Sunday Telegraph on 'Honour'

Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of nine novels including The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour, and is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into over forty languages and she regularly contributes to publications including The New York Times, the Guardian and Time magazine. Elif has been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in London and can be found at www.elifshafak.com.

General Fields

  • : 9780241288047
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Viking
  • : January 2017
  • : January 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elif Shafak
  • : Paperback
  • : 117
  • : 384
  • : FW