![]() ![]() ![]() She can find no way out of her inner conflict and her later attempt to live as a secular Muslim poses unimagined difficulties – not just with her parents in Turkey, but also as a student at Oxford and even when she becomes a wife and mother. Peri, who loves both her parents, resorts to unconventional means to keep the peace at home: when her father puts up a Christmas tree, which her mother condemns as a Christian symbol, she turns it into a ″Muslim tree″, decorating it with a headscarf, a brass mosque and a book of Islamic poetry.Īlthough Peri is a bright girl, eager to read and learn, she has frequently found the path she tries to take between the extremes blocked. While her mother prays three times a day, wears a headscarf and follows all the religious rules, her father is sickened by the ″scent of paradise″ ( Der Geruch des Paradieses, the book’s German title) and makes an effort to educate his daughter in the values of the Enlightenment and critical thinking. Peri has been straddling worlds ever since she was a child. ![]()
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