![]() ![]() If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to attend an Oxford seminar, this book will take you there. The rest of the story alternates between the truly awful dinner party of the present and flashbacks through Peri’s past to show the events that led to that photo and this evening. That photo unleashes a flood of memories and emotions in her. Taken during her student days at Oxford, it captures a fleeting moment with her two best friends and their charismatic professor. What happens next is a shocking thrill ride that ends with a chase scene and a physical struggle.ĭuring the altercation, Peri’s purse is upended, and a Polaroid photo flutters to the ground. When the story opens, it’s Istanbul, 2016, and our heroine Peri - 35 years old, upper-middle class - is stuck in nightmarish traffic with her daughter, on the way to an uppercrust dinner party she does not want to attend. ![]() It’s a mashup of domestic noir and coming-of-age story set in Istanbul in the 1980s and 2016 and at Oxford University in the early aughts. She brings all of that, plus deep compassion, to this novel. Her works have been translated into 55 languages, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Politico named her one of the twelve people ‘who will give you a much needed lift of the heart.’ Author Elif Shafak is a literary force: an award-winning author whose books are as readable as they are sharp and insightful. ![]()
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