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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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The theme of the West is contrasted to the East which, which in its effort to 
westernise, loses its spiritual qualities and becomes a mirror-image of the West
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She was also a very prolific novelist. 
Ateşten Gömlek
(Shirt of Fire, 1922) which is 
considered to be the first Kurtuluş novel, 
Vurun Kahpeye
(Strike the Whore, 1926)
 
along with a selection of short stories under the title 
Dağa Çıkan Kurt
(The Wolf 
Who took to the Mountains, 1922) reflect Turkey during the War of Independence. 
The voluminous list of her fiction also includes 
Kalp Ağrısı
(Heartache, 1924), 
Zeyno’nun Oğlu
(Zeyno’s Son, 1928), 
Yol Palas Cinayeti 
(Murder in the Yol Palace, 
1937), 
Tatarcık
(Sand fly, 1939), 
Sonsuz Panayır
(Endless Fair), 1946), 
Akile Hanım 
Sokağı 
(Akile Hanım Street, 1958). She also wrote novels serialised in 
Cumhuriyet 
newspaper 
Sevda Sokağı Komedyası 
(The Comedy of the Street of Love,1959) and 
Çaresaz 
(The One Who Helps all Around Her,1960) and 
Kızıl Hançeler
(Red 
Daggers) in the journal 
Hayat
(Life) (1964) in the year she died
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The novels she wrote after she had left Turkey in 1925 unfold during the time of her 
childhood and her youth. 
The Clown and his Daughter
was published first in English 
in 1935. It was then adapted by the author herself in Turkish as 
Sinekli Bakkal 
(The 
Fly-plagued Grocer) in 1936 and is one of her most widely read novels and has been 
translated into other languages as well. It presents as a main theme a synthesis of 
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