This is first time I’m reading about Turkey, the socio-political situation there made me cringe at times.Most of the issues discussed are pretty relevant. I haven’t read translated fiction much except for Fredrik Backman and Jo Nesbo.The character development is beautiful and the writing style engaging. The woman who still doesn’t feel at ease at the upper-class party. The college student who feels left out at Oxford sandwiched between Mona, the believer and Shirin, the sinner. Whereas Mensur says ” He wouldn’t mind if I had some fun right?”.We get to see the little girl lost between a leftist father and a religious mother. The God that Selma worships, is someone who according to Peri is waiting for us to do something wrong, so that he can punish us. Her father, Me sure is a leftist and her mother, Selma religious, she is sandwiched in between not knowing what to believe.

Peri’s past and present are weaved together in the following chapters. The mugging brings forth an old photo from her bag, which has her 2 friends : Shirin, Mona and her professor Azur, the guy who taught a seminar on God in Oxford. She gets mugged and comes to realization that she could actually kill a person. The book starts off with Peri and her daughter who are on the way to a party. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart. To her home with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about Islam and femininity. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as an eighteen year old sent abroad for the first time. 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 wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag.

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