01653nam a22001457a 4500999001700000020001800017082001000035100001700045245004100062260002000103300003200123520116600155942000701321952017901328  c67990d67990  a9780241088047  a820.9  aShafak, Elif  aThree Daughters Of EvecElif Shafak   aUKbVikinc2016  aix, 365 Pagesb20x13 cmbPB  aPeri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past Peri had tried desperately to forget. 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. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill-begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind are the memories invoked by her almost-lost polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad to attend Oxford. As a young woman there, she had become friends with the charming, adventurous Shirin, a fully assimilated Iranian girl, and Mona, a devout Egyptian-American. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart  cBK  0010406820_900000000000000_S524T_2016708FIC966345aGPLbGPLcFICd2025-10-06eCRV/242/Donation/GPLM  l1o820.9 S524T 2016p70308r2026-06-03s2026-05-21w2025-10-06yBK