Women of Eve

About the book: Perry was on her way to a dinner party in Istanbul when a beggar blocked her way and stole her handbag. While she was struggling to retrieve her bag, a Polaroid picture fell from it showing three young women and their brilliant professor at Oxford University. It is a novel about remnants of love that Perry desperately tried to forget; and about a strange friendship that brought together: Mona, the devout Egyptian, and Shirin, the atheist Iranian, and Perry, torn between a liberated father and a conservative mother. "Shafak is one of the most important writers of novels in our time. Her recent remarkable work moves between Oxford and Istanbul, astonishingly exploring the relationship between faith and friendship, between poverty and wealth, and the terrifying clash between modernity and tradition." (Independent) "Elif Shafak is the best novelist in Turkey in this decade." (Orhan Pamuk) Publisher: Adab Publisher Author: Elif Shafak Number of pages: 600