An edition of The Orientalist (2004)

The Orientalist

solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life

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An edition of The Orientalist (2004)

The Orientalist

solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life

1st ed.
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An extraordinary and hugely topical story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world.On the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world.Tom Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia's oil reserves, 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 Kurban Said, its supposed author? And why did he and his book fade into obscurity?For five years, Reiss tracked Said's protean identity 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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Random House
Language
English
Pages
433

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The Orientalist
2010, Random House Publishing Group
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
March 14, 2006, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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The Orientalist
July 7, 2005, Chatto and Windus
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
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The Orientalist: solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life
2005, Random House
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2005, RB Large Print
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2004, Random House
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New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-411) and index.

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833/.912
Library of Congress
PT2679.A433 Z87 2005, PT2637.A433 Z87 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 433 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
433

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18485683M
Internet Archive
orientalistsolvi00reis
ISBN 10
1400062659
LCCN
2004050928
OCLC/WorldCat
55729753
Library Thing
16354
Goodreads
1117690

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