Peri had had a troubled childhood where she was never able to grasp the concept of God.
To the house she shared with her two best friends Shirin, the bold, rebellious and the beautiful, and Mona, the shrewd religious one, and to all the debates they had about God, Islam and feminism, and finally to her obsession with her Professor which ultimately tears all of them apart.
To her youth in Oxford where she is a confused student of Philosophy trying to stitch back the pieces of her soul. This particular photo takes us on the journey to Peri’s past as a child and to her dysfunctional family life. It is of herself with her two best friends and their Professor from her days at Oxford as a student. Caught in a scuffle with this tramp, Peri notices a photo fall to the ground. Set in Istanbul in 2016 with flashbacks to the past both in Istanbul and Oxford, the story is about a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother called Peri, who is on her way to a lavish dinner party when her bag is snatched by a beggar. Little did I know that as much as I would be engrossed into the first few parts, I would be utterly disappointed when the book ends. This was the book I happily picked up that day and brought it home to be engrossed into for the next several weeks. You pick up one particular title, carefully turning it over to read the cover and the plot strikes a chord within you. So one fine afternoon, you find yourself walking down the aisles of your favorite book store and you stumble upon a section having books of your current favorite author: Elif Shafak.
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