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The Orientalist

- In Search of a Man caught between East and West
Af: Tom Reiss Engelsk Paperback

The Orientalist

- In Search of a Man caught between East and West
Af: Tom Reiss Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 480
ISBN-13: 9780099483779
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0099483777
Kategori: Azerbaijan
Udg. Dato: 6 jul 2006
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 6 jul 2006
Forfatter(e): Tom Reiss
Forfatter(e) Tom Reiss

Kategori Azerbaijan

ISBN-13 9780099483779

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 480

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 129mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 6 jul 2006

Oplagsdato 6 jul 2006

Forlag Vintage Publishing

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