Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century...
'Osman Aga was the son of an Ottoman officer settled in the town of Temeşvar (now Timişoara), in the west of present-day Romania. Entering the army in his turn, he was taken prisoner by the Austrians and most of his autobiography is concerned with the eleven years...