"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."

Mystical, sad, thought-provoking. Didn't like the ending but loved the book anyways, for effortlessly covering so many huge topics like friendship, family, politics, religion, freedom, feminism, betrayal, and grief.

Travelling to Bavaria - enjoy!

Thanks lot for this RABCK. I'm looking forward to reading this novel.

I liked this book for several reasons:
First of all, Peri's story is captivating. Second, it was interesting to see Istanbul and Turkish society through the eyes of a Turkish woman. I also liked the three "friends" - three Muslim women of three different backgrounds with completely different views about life and religion. The author must also have done some thorough research on philosophers. Unfortunately, I was too lazy to look up any words unknown to me, but I could still understand everything.
At the end, however, the book became a bit lengthy, and like FraukeRo I didn't like the ending.
I will soon meet someone who has this book on their wishlist and will then pass it on to that bookcrosser.

Passed on to greenbadger on whose wishlist I found this book.

Thank you very much for bringing a wishlist book for me!

Peri has grown up conflicted about religion, torn between her religious, superstitious mother and her highly rational father. Always trying to keep the peace, she's learnt to be passive and has never found her own views. When she travels from Istanbul to start university in Oxford, she meets Shirin, who has rejected Islam, and Mona, strictly religious, and the lecturer Azur who will change her life. In parallel the book follows the present day Peri, who is mugged on the way to a party, and is reconnected to her past. This is a really interesting look at the conflicts faced by religious people and especially muslims today, of the differences faced by a young woman coming to the west for the first time, and Istanbul, city of contrasts, with one foot in Europe and one in Asia.