Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe (World Literature in Translation)
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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 memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life begins upon his capture and subsequent enslavement during the Ottoman–Habsburg Wars. Adrift in a landscape far from his home and traded from one master to another, Osman tells a tale of indignation and betrayal but also of wonder and resilience, punctuated with queer trysts, back-alley knife fights, and elaborate ruses to regain his freedom.
Throughout his adventures, Osman is forced to come to terms with his personhood and sense of belonging: What does it mean to be alone in a foreign realm and treated as subhuman chattel, yet surrounded by those who see him as an object of exotic desire or even genuine affection? Through his eyes, we are treated to an intimate view of seventeenth-century Europe from the singular perspective of an insider/outsider, who by the end his account can no longer reckon the boundary between Islam and Christendom, between the land of his capture and the land of his birth, or even between slavery and redemption.
ASIN: 0520383397
VSKU: DBV.0520383397.LN
Condition: Like New
Author/Artist:Timisoara, Osman of|Casale, Giancarlo
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: In unread excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean with no markings. Item may have minor shelf wear on the cover, spine, pages, or dust cover. Item may contain remainder marks on edges.
ASIN: 0520383397
VSKU: DBV.0520383397.LN
Condition: Like New
Author/Artist:Timisoara, Osman of|Casale, Giancarlo
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: In unread excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean with no markings. Item may have minor shelf wear on the cover, spine, pages, or dust cover. Item may contain remainder marks on edges.
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