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Three Daughters of Eve

ISBN 
9780241979921
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R275.00
Published 
July 2017
About the book: 

Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal.Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, 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 nineteen year old sent abroad for the first time. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. To the house she shares with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about identity, Islam and feminism. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart.Shirin, Peri and Mona, they were the most unlikely of friends. They were the Sinner, the Believer and the Confused.

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About the Author

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s novel  10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World  was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.  The Island of Missing Trees  was a  Sunday Times  bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.  There are Rivers in the Sky,  which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction, is her latest novel.

Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded the medal of  Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres  and, in 2024, was awarded the British Academy President's Medal for  “her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range.”

Photo Credit: Curtis Brown

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