description: In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with the Pearl Earring, Halide's Gift is an intimate portrait of a young woman of restrained passions and fiercely independent mind. At the heart of Frances Kazan's beguiling novel are two sisters -- one flamboyant and mischievous, the other shy and full of dreams -- who will be forced apart by their love of radically different men. A vibrant fusion of history and fiction set in Constantinople in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, it tells the story of the legendary Halide Edib, torn between the mystical world of her mother and grandmother and the tantalizing promise of freedom.
language: English
title: Halide's Gift
titlecomplete: Halide's Gift
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 158
publisher: Turtleback Books