Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
Brand: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Product Description
The stunning timely new novel from the acclaimed internationally bestselling author of The Architects Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. 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. As she wrestles to get it back a photograph falls to the groundan old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a pastand a lovePeri had tried desperately to forget. 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. Over the course of the dinner and amidst an opulence that is surely ill begotten terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peris mind however are the memories invoked by her almostlost Polaroid of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time to attend Oxford University. 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. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur who teaches divinity but in unorthodox ways. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart. Three Daughters of Eve is a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world. show more
Condition : New
Author : Elif Shafak
Weight : 483
Publisher : BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Language : English
EAN : 9781632869968
ISBN10 : 1632869969
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20190613
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 140 X 211 X 25mm