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| Original Title: | Honor |
| ISBN: | 0670784834 (ISBN13: 9780670784837) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.elifshafak.com/kitaplar/honour.asp |
| Characters: | Jamila, Pembe, Iskender, Yunus, Esma, Adem, Tarik |
| Setting: | Istanbul(Turkey) Kurdish Village near the River Euphrates(Turkey) London, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Man Asian Literary Prize Nominee (2012), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2013), Prix Relay des Voyageurs (2013), Prix Lorientales (2014), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2014) |
Elif Shafak
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.04 | 13363 Users | 1397 Reviews
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An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them. Just published to great acclaim in England, Honor is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart.
Particularize Appertaining To Books Honor
| Title | : | Honor |
| Author | : | Elif Shafak |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | March 7th 2013 by Viking (first published 2012) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Turkish. Asian Literature. Turkish Literature |
Rating Appertaining To Books Honor
Ratings: 4.04 From 13363 Users | 1397 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Honor
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 integral part of your life. A good story, or to be more exact, a good presentation of story makes the listener or reader think, to move outside of herself, to move beyond the habit and culture that she knows. AWell. I think I can officially put Elif Shafak on my favorite authors list. Watch my full review https://youtu.be/PJdmjkXNhXg
I absolutely loved this book. I loved everything about it. The characters are all completely believable, the story is one which will you will not want to see the end of while dying to know what actually happened, the writing is wonderful to read and the humanity of the story is so real as to feel --- well, real.I was absorbed for the four evenings I read this book until too late in bed. Had I had the time this would have been a sit down on a Saturday morning and read til it gets dark kind of
If there is one thing this book succeeds in impressing upon the mind of reader, it is that it takes years and lots of suffering and pain to let go off deep-seated notions of righteousness, passed down through generations in a conservative society. One of the most horrific outcomes of such practices is honour killing where a woman is murdered in cold blood to supposedly keep the honour of family intact in case she deviates from the rules of modesty dictated by the system. While it is also true
This is such a phenomenal- interesting - page -turning very enjoyable novel. I was drawn into the storytelling instantly....[ I THINK EVERY ONE OF MY FRIENDS WILL BE TOO].....its mesmerizing and brilliant. This is also my first book by Elif Shafak. It wont be the last. Ive not read another book quite like this one. Its rich in Turkish/Kirdish culture - yet its literary fiction written in English. I cant ever remember reading a novel about an honor killing in the Muslim culture. Had Elif Shafak
Could not put this down, have enjoyed all her books, this one depicts so well life in a Kurdish village, the tough love in being born female, the challenges of immigrants, the difficulty in adapting to different cultural norms and the universal disappointments and often reluctant or guilt-ridden joys of new-found love.
I didn't enjoy this book very much , i think because i read so many reviews about it, don't do it just make sure the book is good, coming with prejudices always ruins everything Elif is a minority people writer i like to call her that, but this time the minority people were not in thier homes i didn't get to know thier true sufferings and the discrimination they felt in places they called home where other people think that they are more qualified to own a piece of land, thats why i didn't learn
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