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Honour

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241989241

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 21mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 193g

  • RRP: £8.99

Honour

From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures.

'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten'

Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children find their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime.

Set in Turkey and London in the 1970s, Honour explores pain and loss, loyalty and betrayal, the clash of tradition and modernity, as well as the love and heartbreak that can tear any family apart.

'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi

'Vivid storytelling... that explores the darkest aspects of faith and love' Sunday Telegraph

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241989241

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 21mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 193g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate

    Joanne Harris, bestselling author of 'Chocolat'

  • Vivid storytelling... that explores the darkest aspects of faith and love

    Sunday Telegraph

  • [Elif Shafak] joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Aamer Hussein, Andrea Levy, Hanan al-Shakyh and Leila Aboulela, who offer us fictional glimpses of London's Others

    Independent

  • Fascinating and gripping - a wonderful novel

    Rosamund Lupton

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About the Author

Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 languages. The author of 19 books, 12 of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. In 2021, Shafak's The Architect's Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's inaugural book club, The Reading Room. Find out more about Elif Shafak on her website: www.elifshafak.com.

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