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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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Elif Shafak is one of today's most influential international writers and intellectuals who straddle East and West. She is the acclaimed author of ten novels including The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul and is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into over forty languages and she has been awarded the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. She is also a public speaker, a women's and LGBT rights activist and a commentator who regularly contributes to world publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica. Elif has been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. She lives in London and can be found at www.elifshafak.com

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin UK (28 September 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241978882
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241978887
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 266 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22 x 15 x 2.5 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

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Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels. She is a bestselling author in many countries around the world and her work has been translated into 55 languages. Her latest novel

The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Award, RSL Ondaatje Prize and Women’s Prize for Fiction. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; and was Blackwell’s Book of the Year. The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. The Architect’s Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall’s inaugural book club, The Reading Room. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She also holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College.

Shafak is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She is a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of expression, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people “who will give you a much needed lift of the heart”. Shafak has judged numerous literary prizes, including PEN Nabokov prize and she has chaired the Wellcome Prize.

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S. A. Kapur

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 21 August 2017

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The novel Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak is an engaging read. While it does not rank among Shafak's best pieces of work, it has an easy style and is certainly readable.

The plot revolves around protagonist Peri's time as an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford, where she befriends Iranian atheist student Shirin, and religiously conservative Mona. All three enroll on a seminar by Professor Azur that focuses on God. The book flits between Peri's time at Oxford in 2002, and her life in Istanbul in 2016 as a housewife and mother.

Peri's character as a timid, uncertain and confused teenager is pretty well developed. However, Shafak does not spend enough time rounding out the other characters. She delves into Azur's history towards the end of the book, but Shirin and Mona are left as an unproblematic dichotomy. Even though Shafak uses the poststructuralist terminology of "self" and "other" in discussing the Shirin/Mona binary opposition, she does not bother to scratch the surface and find out what lies beneath their seemingly uni-dimensional personalities.

Much like Peri's character, Shafak is timid about engaging with the loaded issues of religion, politics and mental health. She tiptoes around them, failing to capitalise on the fact that Peri went to Oxford in 2002--right after the September 11 attacks--which could have been an opportunity to engage more seriously with the Islamophobia that the events of 2001 triggered in the West.

Even so, I would recommend Three Daughters of Eve to fans of Shafak's writing. The book contains many nuggets of insight, and is worth a read.

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Prat

Story of love

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 September 2018

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It’s Story of Peri , a woman from Upper middle class In Istanbul. Gripping novel takes in and out of her college days at Oxford. It’s a story of how love can dominate the best of yourself and make one do something which otherwise one never will. Also how just small events in life alter course of events for oneself as well as others.

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Hema Dave

Great read!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 July 2017

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An insight, thought provoking. The book, takes you in two time period. The author, leaves you with instances , to ponder one's understanding and definition of God. Loved the way it's written. Although my quench, to know what happened with Peri in the end, was not well satisified.

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Sam & Stella

first one being Forty Rules of Love. I like the way she writes and keeps ...

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 13 March 2017

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This is my 2nd novel by Elif, first one being Forty Rules of Love. I like the way she writes and keeps one engaged. The Plot is good and could be more or less a real life story.

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Great

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About theist, atheist and the one in between.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 May 2017

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Her way of weaving two time zones seemlesley into one is just so astounding. The story is important for each one us to reflect on how we will retain and preserve our integrity and originality while the world seems to be moving in the zone of black and white. Go ahead and read for we all our eve's!

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Seerat S

I had previously read 40 rules of love by elif shafak so i had really high expectations ...

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 8 December 2017

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I had previously read 40 rules of love by elif shafak so i had really high expectations from this book and it was even better than that. Such a beautiful story, told in such a beautiful way and in such beautiful words. My favourite book ever !

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good book it's quite early to comment

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"The Sinner, the Believer and the Confused"

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The book is very readable, but it darts about chronologically. For example, the account of an upper bourgeois dinner party which Peri, the central character, attends in Istanbul in 2016 is spread throughout the book over several chapters, separated from each other by many other chapters about earlier years. This dinner party gives the author the opportunity to voice her criticism of the repressive Turkish state, and of its wealthy bourgeoisie who let go of their hatred of it only in private. But they do not think that, in the Middle East, Western democracy would work.
The author’s descriptions of real events, especially in Turkey, are so extremely graphic that I was taken aback by the mystical visions Peri has at various points in her life.
The book begins in 2016 in Istanbul, with vivid description of Peri, aged 35, stuck in one of the notorious dense traffic jams on her way to the bourgeois party. Istanbul is always a dangerous city. While the car is stuck, street urchins steal a precious handbag from its back seat. She gives chase, catches up with them, but is confronted with their “manager”, who, high on having sniffed glue, drew a knife on her and then (several chapters later) slashed her hand and tried to rape her; but with amazing strength, she drastically and bloodily disabled him, retrieved her handbag and most of its contents.
The flashbacks are, first, to Peri’s childhood in the 1980s, when she was the seven-year old daughter of a warring couple: father an ardent Kemalist secularist, mother an ultra-religious Muslim. Turkey was then governed by the military after a coup in 1980. There is a terrifying police search of their house; they took away her eldest, Marxist, brother, a university student, and tortured him into confessions. He was given an eight year prison sentence. Already as at seven Peri worried how God, in whom she still believed, could let that and other injustices happen.
Another experience she had at that time – and one which would recur several times in her life – was having visions of a baby-shaped djinn in a mist. When she told her father, he mocked; when she told her mother, she took her to an exorcist, but without success.
Peri’s other brother dropped out of university and became a religious and nationalist fanatic, ever quarrelling with his father. Peri, temperamentally hating extremes, sought refuge from the tensions in the family by immersing herself in books, in learning, and in leading an essentially lonely life, full of insecurities about religion. She always came top of her class, and her father was very proud of her and organized, against the wishes of his wife, for her to go to Oxford, in the enlightened West, to study. There she feels other insecurities, about her cultural identity.

Now we have flashbacks to Peri’s time in Oxford. Hints of an upsetting period at Oxford have been scattered throughout Part One. In Part Two she arrives in Oxford so very different from Istanbul - in 2000, aged 19. The upsetting episodes do not come until half-way through the book.
In her college, Peri meets two other Muslim girls: Shirin, a feisty British-Iranian who is mocking about the Muslim beliefs in which she had been brought up; and Mona, a religious hijab-wearing Egyptian-American. Shirin gives Peri the low-down on Oxford student types. Shirin dotes on the charismatic Professor Azur, whose exclusive seminar on God she attends.
As the nature of God had obsessed Peri since her childhood, she managed to be admitted to the seminar. Azur seemed to share her view: critical of the fixed attitudes of both atheism and faith and determined to undermine absolutes, he taught the need for an open mind and continual doubt. Azur’s method of teaching was very unconventional, and it made him enemies as well as admirers. He publicly attacked Peri’s concern with the justice of God, and that made her hate him at the same time as she loved him for his general philosophy.
She was outraged when she found that, in an indirect way, Azur has manipulated Shirin, Mona and Peri (“the Sinner, the Believer and the Confused”) into moving out of college to share a house: he wanted to set up an experiment of getting these three to learn to tolerate each other’s conflicting views. They did indeed argue angrily with each other from the very beginning – and it seems to me unbelievable that Mona and Peri should ever have agreed to move in with Shirin in the first place, let alone that they should have stayed together after so many abrasive rows between Shirin and Mona. Peri re-experienced the discomfort she had always felt when her parents had quarrelled in the same way.
Only 10% from the end does the author as narrator tell us anything of Azur’s back story, and only 5% from the end do we learn exactly why she had such terrible memories of what she had done to ruin him.
At the very end of the book, there is an episode of extreme danger at the dinner party in Istanbul. We are not told how that episode ends; and, during it, Peri has a telephone conversation with Azur in Oxford which is ludicrously unbelievable. I don’t think I have ever read a book with a more unsatisfactory ending.

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patrice

Mediocre. Verbose. Over-ambitious.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 December 2019

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The English in this book is clumsy and verbose. The author will never use one word if she can use three. The characters are poorly developed. The flimsy story of an undergraduate with a crush on a professor is an inadequate framework for the weight of the didacticism and gobbets of philosophy and politics that are laid upon it.

The parts of the story that take place in Turkey are better than the parts in Oxford, a place which I get the impression the author did not know very well at the time of writing.

The author keeps telling us what people are WEARING: 'A velvet fedora, barely taming his rebellious locks, completed his natty appearance'. Some of the romantic passages are cringe-making: 'In the dancing candlelight, his eyes were forest-green; the tips of his eyelashes seemed to glow, and his lips, which Peri had never dared to examine before, appeared nearly as vivid a colour as the wine he was drinking.' At one point the adored professor, whom we are supposed to see as wonderfully sophisticated and eloquent, tells Peri 'You are very special'. For goodness sake!

The author TELLS us what kind of people her characters are rather than SHOWING us through the action of the novel. Quite early in the story she tells us about the main character: '...it was always people with rough journeys in their pasts, uncertainty in their eyes and invisible wounds in their souls that intrigued her. Generous with her time and loyal to the bone, she befriended those select few with an unflagging commitment and love.' The author never actually shows us any evidence for this. Tiresome.

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Sansa

A book that draws you in

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 February 2019

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I loved this book, it was written so well and it really drew me into the story. I loved how I wasn't sure where it was going but I thought I knew, and then it turned out that I didn't know at all. It spoke quite personally to me about religion and how hard it is sometimes to say you're agnostic and have no firm view either way. I loved Peri, she was so interesting both as her younger self and how she grew up to be. I would recommend this book to anyone!

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A Spritual Journey

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The story is incidental. The narrative here is the real thread, changing, rising, ebbing. It left many loose ends, but I loved it for what it is. Thank you Elif.

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S.A.

Very interesting

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Well written and a light read. Very interesting perspective on cultural issues which very rarely are discussed in this way. It was nice to see that no one was vilified. I enjoyed it.

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