But this book ends with the main character admitting that what she mistook as true love was a mere temporary infatuation with the image of a specific person that she had created in her own head. Now it is her new path way, a new journey towards God.īefore her adulthood, she wished to love God for the love of God and not for the promise of rewards or because of the fear instilled in our minds ever since our childhood. She comes to know the existence of God and deep spiritual relation with Him. After conducting many conversation with her friends and Professor Azur, she finds a change in her life. In her third phase of adulthood, we find impacts of her childhood and teenage periods in her life. And Peri fell in love with Professor Azur. He tries to connect her relation with God spiritually. What is God? Does he really exist? He comes to know the inner war of Peri juggling with plenty of questions about religion. Her guider, Professor Azur puts several questions about God. Peri finds a little space in her life about God.
One is the sinner and the other is believer. Here she meets an Iranian girl, Shirin and an American girl, Mona. In the second phase of her teenage, she takes admission in Oxford University. She always moves on in haphazard path way. So this is her childhood time when she grows up in Turkey but does not find a spiritual relation with God. Her parents have different views about God and religion. But she is unable to understand fully about God because her mother is too religious whereas father is too secular. In her childhood, she is taught about religion from her parents. Whereas the title talks about three characters of the book referring to them as “The Sinner, The Believer and The Confused.” These are three girls studying together at Oxford, all being totally different from each other.Įlif Shafak draws three phases of Peri’s life her childhood, teenage and adulthood. The whole story of this book revolves around the protagonist character Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife who has always been confused when it comes to matters related to religion. This is the most interesting book which touches everyone’s soul.
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