Prisoner of the Infidels. The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Osman of Timişoara. Edited, Translated and Introduced by Giancarlo Casale — By Kristof D'hulster An attractive pocket, 200 pp., 19$, a stylized tulip on the front cover, and a back flap that raises high expectations: “Victor Hugo meeting Papillion in an effervescent Ottoman Turkish memoir of war, slavery and self-discovery”. Sounds exciting! For me, Papillion is (an autobiographical?) movie of someone who repeatedly tries…
