5/21/2023 0 Comments Elif shafak daughterLaurie Greer, Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC Growing up in Turkey, she inhabited a limbo between her mother’s defiant religion and her father’s defiant materialism, and as a result has suffered bouts of paralyzing indecision-with tragic consequences.” “Unfolding in both contemporary Istanbul and Oxford during the academic year 2001–2002, Shafak’s compelling novel examines a series of dualities-east and west, men and women, religious and secular-in order to discover a more harmonious ‘third path.’ The protagonist, Peri, embodies this quest. Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, MN Winter 2018 Reading Group Indie Next List Compelling, poignant, and highly relevant, Three Daughters of Eve is a modern exploration of identity in a changing world.” Looking back on these years from the perspective of adulthood, Peri must confront her past before it collides with the present. As a young, unformed student, Peri felt lost in her search for faith and self. While suffering through a tedious dinner party with the international elite, she ponders her days as a student at Oxford, when her life was profoundly impacted by two friends and a charismatic professor. Peri is now a rich and glamorous woman living a comfortable life. “Elif Shafak's Three Daughters of Eve depicts a sophisticated and compelling story of modern Istanbul.
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