Tahiti The Marriage Of Loti

By Pierre Loti

Book Overview

First published in 2002. Set in Tahiti in 1872, this is an autobiographical novel that tells of the love affair between a beautiful island girl and the French naval officer who wrote under the name of Pierre Loti.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138983519
• ISBN13: 9781138983519
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Romantic and Exotic

Every love story has the plot that two people want each other but for some reason they can't have each other. In addition to that plot there must be another story and a background landscape that is interesting. In The Marriage of Loti the central love story concerns Loti and his 14 year old native wife, Rahahu. Loti is in the Navy and has to leave paradise. Rahahu has to stay. Hence the reason they can't have each other forever...