James Barrie 
THE NAKED ORIENTALIST: The Turkish Life of French Sailor and Writer Pierre Loti [EPUB ebook] 
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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 Aziyadé 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 in the late 1980s. When he discovers his flatmate Harry dead in the bath, the word ‘Loti’ written into the grime of the tiled wall and the book Aziyadé left open on his desk, his life takes an unexpected course.

Orhan, a young tea boy, encounters a strange foreigner dressed like a Turkish pasha accompanying a carriage carried through the streets of Constantinople. The carriage contains his aging guardian Khadija. He follows the group to the cemeteries beyond the city’s ancient walls, their destination: his mother’s grave.

The Naked Orientalist combines both historical and contemporary chapters to explore Loti, his Turkish lover Hatijay and his first book Aziyadé.

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In his twenties James Barrie lived and worked in Turkey for the Turco-British Association, the Turkish Technical Research Institute and language schools in Ankara and Istanbul. Research for The Naked Orientalist included visits to Pierre Loti’s house in Rochefort, France, and the Turkish cemeteries of Istanbul. He currently lives in Yorkshire and also writes books about cat detectives.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9780995657175 ● Taille du fichier 4.0 MB ● Maison d’édition James Barrie Wilson ● Publié 2022 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8214249 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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