Halide's Gift - Couverture souple

Kazan, Frances

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0375759972 ISBN 13 : 9780375759970

Editeur : Random House USA Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Kazan Frances

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“A complex tale of intrigue, secrets, superstitions and veiled passions. Frances Kazan has turned unknown history into compelling human drama.”
—Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue

“Enchanting . . . Frances Kazan has taken Halide Edib’s true story—her amazing moment in Turkey’s history—and with an alchemy of art and scholarship has turned it into the kind of fiction that illuminates a world.”
—Jane Kramer

“Engrossing . . . Most of Halide’s story takes place in the harem, where it engages themes of love, marriage and betrayal. . . . Kazan’s descriptions of turn-of-the-century Constantinople are haunting.”
—The Washington Post

“A wonderfully foreign, fascinating world . . . [Halide] was a woman who defied convention.”
—The Denver Post

“I was gripped by Frances Kazan’s evocation of the last days of the Ottoman empire in Halide’s Gift. That strange, fragile world of complex intrigues and compromises is made fully present through her scrupulous attention to individual lives and psychological truth. An impressive novel.”
—Pankaj Mishra, author of The Romantics

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House USA Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375759972
• ISBN 13: 9780375759970
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible