But the disappointment she faced, being unable to learn to have a hold on her thoughts and mental upheavals led to the one wrong decision, changing considerably, the lives of people she loved and desired to be with. Maybe she was always looking for someone who would listen to her qualms without judging her, as she opened her heart out to him. Peri developed an infatuation for the professor due to his different thinking. What brought them together was the professor who taught “GOD”, a theological study, in a very unusual way for those who were confronting religious scepticism. To fulfil her father’s dream, she went to Oxford University where she befriended a sensual, feminist, Iranian-born Shirin and the meek, faithful Egyptian American Mona, very unlikely to be friends though. Some people were passionate believers and others passionate non-believers, she Always trying to look for the middle way, bookworm Peri rummaged for something between faith and doubt. She had a mother who was a devout Muslim in contrast with her husband, a modern Muslim, a secularist, with the habits of over drinking alcohol. It started from her home, the uncertainty in her personality developed from an unhappy, compromising childhood. Later it is revealed that her quest revolves around her journey to Oxford University where she met the people in the photograph and how her life was affected by them. It is when she was attacked by a local robber while they were stuck in the traffic but what’s so significant here is the polaroid of three young women Peri, Shirin and Mona with their university professor A.Z Azur, slipped out from her wallet, a remnant from a time long gone. Peri the protagonist of the story, a wealthy housewife, with her young daughter, Deniz is making way to a lavish dinner party at the great mansion in Istanbul. Three Daughters of Eve is an inner quest of a young, Turkish woman to seek identity and aplomb. “…We suffer in the hands of the gods that we

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