Frances Kazan

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    • Halide’s Gift
    • Halide Edib ve Amerika
    • Good Night, Little Sister
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June 22, 2012 by peter

Books

The Dervish

Mary Di Benedetti, an American war widow, joins her family in Constantinople in 1919, during the Allied occupation. Befriended by Halide Edib Adivar, Mary becomes involved with followers of Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk). Based on first hand accounts of the Turkish nationalist resistance, The Dervish is an adventure story that details the extraordinary events that culminated in 1923 with the creation of the Republic of Turkey. MORE

 

Halide’s Gift

Set in late Ottoman Constantinople Frances Kazan’s second novel is loosely based on the early life of Halide Edib and tells the story of two sisters “bound by an extraordinary friendship, and torn apart by their love of radically different men.” Halide’s Gift was translated into seven languages. MORE

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Halide Edip ve Amerika

An academic study of the origins of Turkish nationalist/writer/ feminist Halide Edib Adivar’s unique relationship to America. Adapted from Frances Kazan’s Masters thesis, using original research from the archives at Williams College. MORE

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Goodnight Little Sister

Drawing on her experience as the wife of a rock manager, Frances Kazan’s debut novel tells the story of Alex Hughes, an Oxford educated English woman who marries rock star Stevie Barnes. “A sharply observed ” picture of the rock n’roll world of the sixties. MORE

English born Frances Kazan is a writer, lecturer, producer and arts supporter.

Recent Posts

  • A Little Glass of Port
  • Helping Writers become Authors
  • “Visiting Turkey and Discovery” — my blog post at Fresh Fiction

Reviews

Kazan has written a politically intriguing and uniquely stylized novel with a subject matter that is refreshingly untrodden. A master of Turkish studies, she conveys this story with the mystique of billowing incense. (review of Halide’s Gift)

— Elsa Gaztambide

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