The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West by Tom Reiss, Tom Reiss

The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West

Tom Reiss, Tom Reiss

433 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 captiva...

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