Honour

De: Elif Shafak

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

And so begins the story of Esma, a young Kurdish woman in London trying to come to terms with the terrible murder her brother has committed. Esma tells the story of her family stretching back three generations; back to her grandmother and the births of her mother and aunt, twin sisters, in a village on the edge of the Euphrates.

Named Pembe and Jamila, the twin girls have very different futures ahead of them, all of which will end in tragedy on a street in East London in 1978.

Honour is a powerful, brilliant and moving account of 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.

©2012 Elif Shafak (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing