Un désir d'Orient. La jeunesse d'Isabelle Eberhardt

Synopsis of Un désir d'Orient. La jeunesse d'Isabelle Eberhardt

«Un désir d’Orient. La jeunesse d’Isabelle Eberhardt» is the biography written by Edmonde Charles-Roux, published by Le Club in paperback, in French.

Biographical portrait of Isabelle Eberhardt, a young woman of Russian origin (1877-1904) who defied her era: she converted to Islam, adopted male clothing and lived as Mahmoud Saadi. Charles-Roux reconstructs with unpublished archives her path from Lake Geneva to the Orient, among Dostoevskian figures, the anarchist diaspora and literary circles.

First volume of the series «Biographie d'Isabelle Eberhardt». The original work appeared in 1988; this French edition is from 1995.

Readers with a command of French, interested in historical biographies and in female figures who defied the norms of their time.