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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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- Book of the week: Halide's Gift.
- News wire article from: United Press International September 3, 2002 700+ words
...studies and in the process discovered Halide Edib Adivar, a Turkish revolutionary...modern Western education. She read Halide's memoirs and her novels, passionate...decided to write a fictional account of Halide's life, to explore the world of...
- `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...
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