Description
A family’s search for a safer life in London becomes a reckoning with the past when the Topraks—Pembe and Adem—carry the weight of Turkish tradition into their children’s futures. In the 1970s, Iskender and Esma grow up amid love, loyalty, and the unspoken rules of honour, until a brutal crime shatters the fragile bonds holding their world together. As secrets surface and loyalties fracture, the novel probes how belief systems can both protect and destroy, and how cultural inheritance can turn into a dangerous inheritance of silence. With Elif Shafak’s vivid, emotionally charged storytelling, this gripping tale of betrayal and devotion examines the clash between tradition and modernity—and the haunting cost of what families choose to remember or bury.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2012
369 pages
ISBN: 9780670921171
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Details
First Published
2012
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Honour by Elif Shafak.