Honour
Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and...
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Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime.Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Hon
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780241972946 (0241972949)
Publisher: Penguin Books , London
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Una storia particolare che mi ha preso il cuore. Chi mi conosce da tempo sa dove è finito Iskender Toprak da quanto è stato importante. Sono stata sconvolta, emozionata, commossa e molto altro nel racconto di due generazioni, due gemelle con una vita dura e un ragazzo difficile che avrebbe potuto...
Pretty well written, though personally London in the 70's is a bit of a drag to read about again. It was like reading a Turkish Zadie Smith. Very Balkan in her description of things, really flowery. Not bad, though I would suggest it to people who haven't had a chance to read things from the Balkan...
Rather heavy-handed in emphasizing the bad treatment of women in traditional Turkish society. Every time she'd write something about honor, I'd think, yeah, but you already said that three times... Too bad, because I really liked her other books; The Bastard of Istanbul had strong social criticism t...
Disclaimer: I read this as an ARC via Netgalley. Thank you, Penguin.Good literature, a good story, stirs something in you besides emotion. This is because we, humans, learn though stories. Whether it is though the fables of Aesop or the narrative that the nightly news uses, stories are an integra...
Honor by Elif Shafak is a tragic story of a shocking honor killing that stuns and shatters the lives and hopes of a Turkish emigrant family living in London in the 1970s.This book opens with a very strong and beautiful dedication from the author which reads as follows; When I was seven years old ...
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