Best Modern Prose
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Elif Shafaq
129 readers The Turkish writer, Elif Shafak, has received international recognition of the touching romance of love and disrespect that brought together the motives of the East and the West.
Two twin sisters were born in the village on the Turkish and Syrian border, where girls were valued for purity and obedience, where inappropriate behaviour of women could be a cause of honour killing. 'Cause honor is often the only thing that's left for a man who's a poor man.
One of the sisters, Jamille, becomes a local polite, and the other, Pymbi, is getting married and leaving with his husband to London. But life doesn't work in England. Edim, Pimbi's husband, is leaving her. Pymbi's loneliness and intransigence throws himself in the arms of another man. And after his father left the family, the son of heroin Isken der understands that he should marry the family. But he also understands that he can hurt a man who loves all his heart...
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