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The three daughters of eve6/6/2023 ![]() in the process, Shafak explores the precarious state of Turkish politics, the evolving position of women in Islam, the sexual ambiguities of college life, and the most profound questions of faith. Peri is such a fascinating heroine because she remains intensely engaged in this debate but resolutely disinterested. the story that develops keeps circling around that struggle, moving from her parents’ domestic squabbles to the central conundrum of theodicy: the challenge of reconciling an all-good, all-powerful God with an often-evil and chaotic world. an ingenious act of compression that works several decades into a single evening. ![]() Sexual harassment, Islamist terrorism, the rising tension between the faithful and the secular, and the gaping chasm between the rich and the poor - all play out in the pages of Three Daughters of Eve. Elif Shafak’s new novel reveals such a timely confluence of today’s issues that it seems almost clairvoyant. ![]()
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