Honour

Honour--------------------------------------------------From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The FortyRules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is anovel of love, betrayal and clash of cultures. 'My mother died twice.I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten.' And so beginsthe story of Esma a young Kurdish woman in London trying to come toterms with the terrible murder her brother has committed. Esma tells" the story of her family stretching back three generationsher grandmother and the births of her mother and Aunt in a villageon the edge of the Euphrates. Named Pembe and Jamila, meaning Pinkand Beautiful rather than the names their mother wanted to call them,Destiny and Enough, the twin girls have very different futures aheadof them all of which will end in tragedy on a street in East Londonin 1978. A powerful, brilliant and moving account of murder, love and" family set in a Kurdish village, Istanbul and London. "Vivid storytelling" ...that explores the darkest aspects of faith and love". (Sunday Telegraph)." "A gorgeous, jewelled, luxurious book". (The Times).