A. Gewurz Daniele Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.

De jonge Marie-Laure is blind. Ze woont met haar vader in Parijs naast het natuurhistorisch museum waar hij werkt als curator. Als ze twaalf is bezetten de nazi's Parijs en vader en dochter vluchten naar het Bretonse Saint-Malo. Ze hebben de grootste en meest waardevolle schat van het museum meegenomen. In een mijnstadje in Duitsland groeit Werner Pfennig samen met zijn jongere zusje Jutta op in een weeshuis. Werner belandt bij de Hitlerjeugd en wordt vervolgens naar het front gestuurd. Via Rusland komt hij ten slotte in Saint-Malo terecht, waar zijn verhaal en dat van Marie-Laure samenkomen.

Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past--and a love--Peri had tried desperately to forget. Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind, however, are the memories invoked by her almost-lost Polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. As a young woman there, she had become friends with the charming, adventurous Shirin, a fully assimilated Iranian girl, and Mona, a devout Egyptian American. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart.