The Sinner, the Believer and the Confused

Abstract

Elif Shafak’s latest novel Three Daughters of Eve takes her idea of a contemporary world devoid of spiritualism a step further. A world lost in religious animosity, fanaticism, intolerance towards every type of belief whether religious or popular, political bigots, crime, underworld, superlative pseudo-intellectualism, exaggerated corruption, probably has only one path to salvation— stepping out of the metaphorical closet of one’s constrictive beliefs. Peri or Naaz Peri belongs to a middle class Turkish family. Always caught between the nexus of dualities such as theism-atheism, believer-non-believer, educated-uneducated, conservatism-liberalism and so on, she is always indecisive and confused about her views and beliefs.