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This is a compelling tale of a woman, Peri (Nazperi), who gets shaken out of her stable, well-adjusted mode of upper-class living in contemporary Istanbul by a random mugging event and by the responses she surprises herself by making. Here’s the effective hook in the first sentence of the book:It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a hollowness in her stomach, that she was capable of killing someone.She gets a lot of
I really wanted to love this book: the language and opulence of the first chapter completely seduced me. However, as I progressed through the book, more things started to grate on me.I loved the language: rich, seductive, intelligent and atmospheric. I loved all description of Istanbul, shaping it into yet another inadvertent protagonist in the book. I liked the story of self-discovery and adolescence; even Oxford setting looked realistic and mysticism did not bother me.My main problem was with
Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this book as I thought I would.The opening lines were encouraging, but then the flow of events became lame and boring. I thought there would be something unique at the end of the book but eventually I didn’t find anything special!I liked Elif Safak in Forty Rules of Love, but here I didn’t like her at all.Sadly, I don’t recommend this book!
Wavering between a 3.5 and 4 star book (so 3.75 I guess)
I'm so glad I finally got to this book. It was a real pleasure to buddy read it with a friend. The first two parts of this book were my favorites. I learned a lot about Turkey. Loved her intelligent writing and the little bit of mystery she conjures up through the story. Shafak is proving to be a writer I'll continue to look to read. I highly recommend Three Daughters of Eve.
The Three Daughters of Eve is a slow-building novel which moves back and forth between Peri's childhood in Istanbul in the 1980s and 90s, Oxford in 2001 where she is a struggling, timid student and 2016 Istanbul where she is a wealthy housewife and mother. After a childhood in a home divided by religion, Peri lives her life in the middle, perpetually confused and so desperate to be normal that she ends up numb and afraid. Although the structure is a bit contrived and the novel more philosophical...
Dual timeline story – one set in present-day Istanbul at a dinner party and the other in the early 2000s at Oxford (told via flashback) during protagonist Peri’s university days, where she was heavily influenced by a charismatic and unorthodox professor. Peri is a young Turkish woman caught in an identity struggle between her mother’s traditional religious beliefs and her father’s modern secularity. While at Oxford, she meets Shirin, an Iranian feminist, and Mona, an Egyptian-American devout Mus...
| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | |“She and Mona and I. The three of us: the Sinner, the Believer, the Confused.”Since I fell in love with Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love back in 2016, I have made my way through her oeuvre, even her more 'obscure' titles such as the overlooked gem that is The Saint of Incipient Insanities. Three Daughters of Eve marks the sixth novel that I've read of hers and while it certainly showcases many of her wonderful trademarks—there is a touch of magical realism, a non-l...
Struggling through the clogged streets of Istanbul, Peri is driving through traffic to attend yet another stifling dinner party of the elite. With her almost teenage daughter in tow, she mistakenly throws her purse to the backseat, and with unlocked doors, someone from the outside grabs her personal belongings. Peri pulls the car over and runs. She confronts the beggar, but he divulges the contents of her purse to the ground. A photo slides out. A man, and three women. The distant memory of Oxfo...
Peri, our central character, is a native of Istanbul who has a close relationship with her secular, hard drinking father and a tense relationship with her devout Muslim mother. The novel begins as the adult Peri makes her way to an ostentatious dinner party with her sullen teenage daughter. En route they have a dangerous and potentially deadly encounter that causes Peri to reflect upon what she is capable of doing. The rest of the novel alternates between the dinner party, Peri’s childhood and y...
1st of February, 2018. MY REVIEW(my previous message yesterday) I finished this book late last night and had to drive 800 km today, so did not have time to review it. Review will follow. This is a though-provoking, intense book. Loved the experience.Istantbul. The city that encompassed seven hills, two continents, three seas, and fifteen millions mouths. The book opened with wealthy 35-year-old Peri (Nazperi) who discovered that she is able to kill someone during a mugging. It is the most import...
(3.5) My first from Shafak, and overall an absorbing story of religion versus secularism. The title trio are young women who meet as international students at Oxford, where they are all drawn to Professor Azur, a charismatic and unconventional don who teaches an infamous seminar on God. Shirin is a boisterous Iranian, while Mona is a feminist Muslim from Egypt. However, the novel’s focus is very much on Peri, from Istanbul. In the present day she’s a wife and mother on her way to a glitzy party
