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Three-Daughters-of-Eve:-Peri,-a-married,-wealthy,-beautiful-Turkish-woman,-is-on-her-way-to-a-dinner-party-at-a-seaside-mansion-in-Istanbul-when-a-beggar-snatches-her-handbag.-As-she-wrestles-to-get-it-back,-a-photograph-falls-to-the-ground–an-old-Polaroid-of-three-young-women-and-their-university-professor.-A-relic-from-a-past–and-a-love–Peri-had-tried-desperately-to-forget.Three-Daughters-of-Eve-is-set-over-an-evening-in-contemporary-Istanbul,-as-Peri-arrives-at-the-party-and-navigates-the-tensions-that-simmer-in-this-crossroads-country-between-East-and-West,-religious-and-secular,-rich-and-poor.-Over-the-course-of-the-dinner,-and-amidst-an-opulence-that-is-surely-ill-begotten,-terrorist-attacks-occur-across-the-city.-Competing-in-Peri’s-mind,-however,-are-the-memories-invoked-by-her-almost-lost-Polaroid,-of-the-time-years-earlier-when-she-was-sent-abroad-for-the-first-time,-to-attend-Oxford-University.-As-a-young-woman-there,-she-had-become-friends-with-the-charming,-adventurous-Shirin,-a-fully-assimilated-Iranian-girl,-and-Mona,-a-devout-Egyptian-American.-Their-arguments-about-Islam-and-feminism-find-focus-in-the-charismatic-but-controversial-Professor-Azur,-who-teaches-divinity,-but-in-unorthodox-ways.-As-the-terrorist-attacks-come-ever-closer,-Peri-is-moved-to-recall-the-scandal-that-tore-them-all-apart.
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