She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). Shafak is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among 100 Novels that Shaped Our World.

Her latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize and chosen Blackwell’s Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into 54 languages. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published 18 books, 11 of which are novels. Three Daughters of Eve is a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world.Įlif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. 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. Competing in Peri''s mind, however, are the memories invoked by her almost-lost Polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. 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. A relic from a past-and a love-Peri had tried desperately to forget. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor.

Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect''s Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.

Eve's three daughters