Honor by Elif Shafak
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My first elif shafak and i love it! The story flows just nice and although it took a while for me to get used to the different narrators at every chapter, and having to be conscious of the date and place of the narration. each of their thoughts and ‘voice’ merge into a story and brings me deeper into their emotions, engrossed to find out the truth. And i appreciate jamila’s story mid-novel, because i was worried she was going to be ‘forgotten’. I found myself blaming adem throughout for his absence as a father figure, and not once did i find iskender a criminal but rather a victim, and totally surprised of the twist that it was jamila he had stabbed and pembe lived.

Had a mix of happy and sad ending. I am mostly sad because jamila died because i imagined a happy reunioin between the twins. And also iskender missed meeting his mother when he got out of prison. But the story ended the way it should be. Perfect.

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i am really loving and appreciate these muslim writers. or at least middle eastern writers. i love their depiction and experiences of their countries and culture and the best of and the not so good moments of their traditions, of the freedom to mention Allah in a novel. they are always colourful in their descriptions and deep in thought philosophy.