Reiss’s quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir of the Ottoman throne to a rock opera-composing baroness in an Austrian castle, to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles.Īs he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum’s deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds–of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists–that have also been forgotten. Beginning with a yearlong investigation for The New Yorker, he pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal, and sometimes as heartbreaking, as his subject’s life. Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and the deathbed notebooks. Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book–discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone–helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons-smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.
Lev was invited to be Mussolini’s official biographer–until the Fascists discovered his “true” identity. His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck–also a friend of both Freud’s and Einstein’s–was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States. He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity–until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino–a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust–is still in print today.īut Lev’s life grew wilder than his wildest stories. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe. Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.īorn in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. An extraordinary novel' * New York Times * 'A beautiful novel' - Paul Theroux. I cannot think of so moving a love story in modern fiction' * Washington Star * 'One feels as if one had dug up buried treasure.an epic cultural change that seems more immediate than this morning's headlines.
'Its beauty and power and the sheer pleasure that it gives are indestructible' * Sunday Times * 'Poignant and beautiful.alive with a vividly unique vision of colliding cultures and enduring love' * The Times * 'A blazing masterpiece. As the Russians withdraw, the Turks advance, and Ali and Nino find themselves swept up in Azerbaijan's fight for independence. Folosind un ebook reader.īut there is not only the obstacle of their different religions and parental consent to overcome. Am gasit-o in categoria Beletristica (cea scrisa de Kurban Said).
You can download the paper by clicking the button above. The Phantom Author of an Unfathomable Land: Ali and Nino. Despite their differences, the two have loved each other since childhood and Ali is determined that he will marry Nino as soon as she leaves school. Ali is a Muslim, with his ancestors' passion for the desert, and Nino is a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways. The Deity And The Sword Pdf To Word.Īli Khan and Nino Kipiani live in the cosmopolitan, oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan which, at the beginning of the twentieth century, is a melting-pot of different cultures.
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