The slave of the Turkish Sultan, young Asiade, was inflamed with passion for an officer of the French fleet. In a single impulse, all barriers are swept away, love does not listen to the voice of reason, but is fortune so favorable in the harsh age of war to a feeling that knows no boundaries? The most famous novel by Pierre Loti, “The Slave of the Harem,” is a love story between a French naval officer and a Turkish woman! Filled with a special mood, Loti's prose with its beautiful characters, deadly love, travels to a distant exotic country will not leave even the most experienced reader indifferent.