Mavi Boncuk | Halide's Gift: A Novel
Set in Constantinople in the dying days of the Ottoman empire, Halide’s Gift is the story of a family with a secret, and a society in turbulent transition. At the heart of Frances Kazan’s beguiling novel are two sisters—one flamboyant and mischievous, the other shy and full of dreams—bound by an extraordinary friendship and torn apart by their love of radically different men. In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Halide’s Gift is an intimate portrait of a young woman of restrained passions and fiercely independent mind. A vibrant fusion of history and fiction, it tells the story of the legendary Halide Edib, the daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid’s first secretary, whose allegiance to the spiritual and traditional world of her mother and grandmother was destined to collide with the tantalizing promise of freedom.
Paperback, 376 pages Published 2002 by Random House
ISBN 0375759972 | ISBN13: 9780375759970
[1] Frances Kazan is an English-born author.
Born Frances Wright in Brighton, England. She has a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in Turkish Studies from New York University.[1] She is a longtime resident of New York City.
Kazan has been married twice: to Peter Rudge, former manager of The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd;[2] and to the director and writer Elia Kazan, from 1981 until his death in 2003. She has two adult children, Joseph and Charlotte Rudge.
From 1997 to 2005, Kazan served as New York correspondent for Cornucopia, an English language magazine about Turkish culture.
Works[
Good Night, Little Sister (hardcover: Stein & Day, 1985; paperback: Collins UK, 1986) centers on a young woman who marries a rock star and becomes caught up in the world of rock ‘n’ roll.
Halide’s Gift (hardcover: Random House, 2001; paperback, Random House, 2003) is a fictional account of the life of Halide Edib Adivar, the Turkish novelist, feminist, and nationalist politician. Halide’s Gift has been translated into six languages.
Halide Edip ve Amerika (Halide Edip and America), (Bağlam Yayınları, 1995; translated from the English by Bernar Kutlu), is a non-fiction book about the influence of American ideas and education on Halide Edib.