The Naked Orientalist: The Turkish Life of French Sailor and Writer Pierre Loti: A Novel

by James Barrie

Pierre Loti, a young French sailor, arrives in Salonika to witness the hangings of several Turks at the harbourside. Behind the bars of a window by the mosque, he spies a young Turkish woman. He begins a love affair with this woman who he calls Aziyad? but whose real name was Hatijay. The romance continued in Constantinople that winter and ended when Loti got his orders to sail in March 1877.

Jonathan is an English language teacher in Istanbul...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995657165
• ISBN13: 9780995657168
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Severus House
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"