But readers interested in debates about the nature of God will find the book intriguing. Events jarringly come out of left field as current-day Peri tries to reconcile with Shirin and Azur, and the narrative itself ends abruptly. Pronouncements from newly awakened college kids in Azur’s class sometimes tip into tedium. The novel’s debate on the nature of God presents opposing viewpoints through the various characters: Shirin, like Peri’s father, becomes an atheist, while Peri’s roommate Mona brandishes a different kind of feminist-tinged Muslim devotion than Peri’s zealous mother, and various students at the seminar voice their opinions along with Azur. Azur inspires love, hate, and obsession among his students and colleagues, and Peri soon falls for him, eventually causing a rift between her and her friends. Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. Peri decided to take a class with Shirin’s beloved mentor, professor Anthony Azur, who teaches a seminar about God. She thinks back to her days at Oxford when she met Shirin, a vivacious, popular student.
She escapes, but when a photograph of her with her two university friends, Shirin and Mona, falls out of her purse during the struggle, it leads her to reminisce.
Siri Hustvedt About the Author Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. On her way to a dinner party in the present, Peri has a violent encounter with a vagrant on the streets in Istanbul. Three Daughters of Eve upends the omnipresent but crude truisms of East and West, oppression and liberation, right and wrong that continue to divide, torment, and haunt us all. Shafak’s ambitious novel (after The Architect’s Apprentice) follows Peri Nalbantoglu, namely her memories of childhood and a scandal in which she was involved long ago at Oxford.
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