Elif Shafak. Island of Lost Trees (№ 439889)

Defne realized that the hands are the most honest part of the human body. Faces were hidden behind a thousand masks. The eyes were lying. The lips were lying. But hands - almost never. Defne saw the old men's hands lying calmly on their knees - withered, wrinkled, liver-stained, twisted, venous. Reasonable and conscientious. Every time Defne asked an uncomfortable question, her hands answered her in their own language: fidgety movements, bitten nails.