{"product_id":"halides-gift-a-novel-9780375505119","title":"Halide's Gift: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in magical  mystical Constantinople in the closing years of the nineteenth century  Halides Gift is the story of a family with a secret  and a society in turbulent transition. At the heart of this beguiling novel are two sistersone flamboyant and mischievous  the other shy and full of dreamsbound by an extraordinary friendship who will be torn apart by their love of radically different men.  Selima Edib  the aristocratic wife of the sultans first secretary  bequeaths to her daughter Halide her passionate spirit and her gifta power nursed within the family for generations  passed on from mother to daughter  and never revealed to outsiders: the power to see and commune with the spirits of the dead. Halides gift leaves her torn between the spiritual  tradition-bound world of her grandmother and the intellectual world of her father  a deeply conflicted man who defies the sultans edict to give his daughter the education of a Western woman  despite his loyalty to the regime.  As the story unfolds  Sultan Abdul Hamid plots  through his spies and informers  to crush the increasingly vocal opposition  leaving Halide and her sister  Mahmoure  on either side of a dangerous political divide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923622854709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375505113","price":65.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375505119.jpg?v=1794109797","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/halides-gift-a-novel-9780375505119","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}