Three Daughters of Eve in Around the World in 80 Books

Nov 22, 2017 Dana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

An engrossing read, reminiscent in part of Donna Tartt’s The Secret Society, and in part of Ian McEwan’s Atonement. An allusion to an incident that occurred at Oxford, we learn, has haunted Peri for decades. But until that is finally disclosed, Shafak plunges the reader into the complexities of Turkish society, religion vs secularism, the traditional vs the modern, the rich vs the poor, dualities that set her own parents apart. Wishing to make sense of it all, on arrival at Oxford, Peri is deter ...more

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Mar 04, 2018 Ra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, scribd

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Over one turbulent evening and night in Istanbul, Peri goes back in memory to her childhood and brief period of study in Istanbul. She is driving to a dinner in a wealthy mansion with her daughter and is subjected on the way to a robbery and attempted rape. As she retrieves her belonging from the street robber, an old photo tumbles out of her bag depicting a younger version of her with two other middle eastern women and their older professor. The three young women in the photo are the confident ...more

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Nov 28, 2017 Daisy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: aroundtheworld2017, campus-boarding-school-or-college, england, turkey

There are flaws. I don't know. There are sudden shifts of point of view. Events that might be important are just glossed over. (view spoiler) And some of it felt like a drugstore romance. But some of it was interesting for the culture of Turkey. I finished it but I was disappointed.

A good book was a good book and that was all that mat ...more

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