Turkish writer Elif Shafak has gained international recognition for her touching novels about love and misunderstanding, in which motifs from East and West are woven together.

Two twin sisters were born in a village on the border of Turkey and Syria, where girls are valued for their purity and obedience, where inappropriate behavior of women can serve as a reason for killing in the name of honor. After all, honor is often the only thing left for a poor man.

One of the sisters, Jamila, becomes a local midwife, and the second, Pimbi, gets married and leaves with her husband for London. But life in England does not work out. Edim, Pimbi's husband, leaves her. Out of loneliness and disorder, Pimbi rushes into the arms of another man. And after his father left, he became the eldest in the family, the heroine’s son Iskender understands that he must stand up for the honor of the family. But he also understands that he can cause pain to the person he loves with all his heart...

For the first time in Russian!