Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak

Three Daughters of Eve is a powerful and thought-provoking novel by award-winning Turkish-British author Elif Shafak. Set between contemporary Istanbul and a dinner party in Oxford in the early 2000s, the story centers on Peri, a wealthy married Turkish woman who attends a glamorous dinner where things go terribly wrong. The novel then flashes back to her university years at Oxford, where she falls under the influence of a charismatic, controversial professor named Azur. Through his seminar on God, religion, and philosophy, Peri befriends two radically different women—Shirin, a sharp-tongued atheist from Iran, and Mona, a devout American Muslim. As the three daughters navigate faith, doubt, friendship, and betrayal, the novel explores the complex tensions between East and West, tradition and modernity, belief and skepticism. Shafak weaves a gripping, deeply humane story about the search for identity and meaning in a divided world.