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The Orientalist - In Search of a Man caught between East and West (Paperback, New ed)
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The Orientalist - In Search of a Man caught between East and West (Paperback, New ed)
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the
border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the
Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself
'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil
business on the Caspian Sea, and discovered a novel instead.
Written on the eve of the Second World War, Ali and Nino is a
captivating love story set in the glamorous city of Baku,
Azerbaijan's capital. The novel's depiction of a lost cosmopolitan
society is enthralling, but equally intriguing is the identity of
the man who wrote it. Who was its supposed author? And why was he
so forgotten that no one could agree on the simplest facts about
him? For five years, Reiss tracked Lev Nussimbaum, alias Kurban
Said, from a wealthy Jewish childhood in Baku, to a romantic
adolescence in Persia on the run from the Bolsheviks, and an exile
in Berlin as bestselling author and self-proclaimed Muslim prince.
The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the
twentieth-century - of the origins of our ideas about race and
religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism.
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