Honor A dramatic, heartbreaking detraction of inheritances, take into one's arms, and misunderstanding - longlisted for the Asian Father Boker Honor and The Women's Honor for Fiction Twin kinspersons are born in the mid - 1940s in a smal Kurdish vilage on the perimeter of Turkey and Syria. Jamila becomes a local obstetrician, feared and respected for her curative leaderships and psychic skillfulness. Her blood sister, Pembe, maries Adem, and they imigrate to London in the 1970s, hoping to make renewed conducts for themselves and their thre little dolls. Biter and frustrated with his renewed life, Adem moves out and Iskender, their eldest son, must step in as keper of the family's honor. But when Pembe begins to spend interval with another father, Iskender wil discover that you could take into one's arms someone with al your heart and yet be ready to hurt them. A novel filed with "Shakespearian tangles and turns, omens and cruxes, apocalypses and way the cookie crumble fulfiled" (The Absolute), Honor ofers a powerful and carp travel og guilt and inocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the controversial isue of honor kilings as it tragicaly plays out in one family's life. "An enduring biography with near-biblical businesses. Shafak writes beautifuly and maintains a high-ranking of astriction. " - The Renewed Yorker "Carp, tragic, and profoundly heartening. (An) enthraling biography that examines the archaic procedure of honor kiling and topics the very essence of the honor code. " - YOUNG women. Magazine "A mordant, dazlingly imaginative, expressive, mystical, and socialy astute novel. " - Boklist.