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Kazan, Frances. Halide's gift.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Random House. 360p. c2002. 0-375-75997-2. $12.95. SA
Halide is a young girl growing into a woman within the exotic world of the harems of the Ottoman Empire, just as it is crumbling apart, and just as its most intelligent citizens are giving up many of the Islamic traditions and are leaning to the ideas of the West. Halide's father is just such a man, and he breaks all the rules to have his daughter educated, to be fluent in Western languages, the first Turkish girl to attend the American college for girls in Istanbul. Apparently Halide was an actual person, and this is a novel based on her experiences. (I see in the list of suggested reading at the end of the book The Memoirs of Halide Edib, by Halide Edib Adivar.) Throughout the story, the forces of spiritual tradition and the forces of intellectual freedom are at war within many of the characters, within families, within Turkey itself. Halide is a remarkably intelligent girl, and as ...
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- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly June 18, 2001 700+ words
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- `Halide's Gift,' by Frances Kazan; Random House.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Cochrum, Alan September 5, 2001 700+ words
...front of her," Frances Kazan writes in "Halide's Gift," "and she was swaying back...The sound of the singer's voice rang in Halide's ears long after her departure." The young Halide Edib later tells her grandmother about the encounter...
- `Halide's Gift,' by Frances Kazan; Random House (345 pages, $24.95).
- News wire article from: Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) August 27, 2001 700+ words
...front of her," Frances Kazan writes in "Halide's Gift," "and she was swaying back...The sound of the singer's voice rang in Halide's ears long after her departure." The young Halide Edib later tells her grandmother about the encounter...
- Halide's Gift.(Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Gaztambide, Elsa June 1, 2001 700+ words
Kazan, Frances. Halide's Gift. July 2001. 256p. Random...This fictional account of the life of Halide Edib is an initiation into nineteenth-century...polygamy. When her mother dies, little Halide is cared for by a devoted Muslim grandmother...
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