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. (Bidisha)Įxuberant, epic and comic, fantastical and realistic. This is an absolutely consuming novel about women who know what they want, and a warning about the price we pay, written with the fluency and depth of an author at the very top of her game. It is a full-blown saga of emotion and character, straddling countries, cultures and languages, exploring its women's ambitions and desires and at the same time a steady-eyed examination of the nameless rules - of femininity, duty, belief and behaviour - that keep us in line and under control.
Luscious, heartbreaking, completely absorbing. Shafak's topical 10th novel is both an interrogation and a defence of Muslim identity (Rebecca Rose Financial Times) (Frances Osborne, bestselling author of The Bolter)
In Three Daughters of Eve she takes us spine-tinglingly right under the skin of three women, exposing the strains of friendship through love and loss. Three Daughters of Eve is a remarkable accomplishment (Richard Holloway)Įlif Shafak's writing leaps off the page. Elif Shafak writes about religion without superficiality or special pleading, retaining a sense of its impossible possibility or its possible impossibility. Her magnificent latest moves between Istanbul and Oxford in a fascinating exploration of faith and friendship, rich and poor, and the devastating clash of tradition and modernity ( Independent)Ī brilliant and moving novel. One of the most important writers at work today, Elif Shafak eloquently explores Turkey's tumultuous present and past. (Ian Rankin)Īn intelligent, fierce and beguiling read ( Financial Times)Ī thoughtful, charming book that offers a connection to other worlds, perspectives and possibilities ( Sunday Times)Īn intense, discursive and absorbing novel ( Observer)
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