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Article: Kazan, Frances. Halide's gift.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- Kliatt
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- November 1, 2002
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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 ...