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The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery Of A Strange And Dangerous Life
Tom Reiss

The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery Of A Strange And Dangerous Life

Random House Trade Paperbacks (Mar 14, 2006)
9780812972764
| Paperback
496 pages | 130 x 201 mm | English
$ 18.00 | Value: $ 8.40
Dewey 833.912

Subject

  • Adventure And Adventurers
  • Authors, German
  • Authors, German/ 20th Century/ Biography
  • Biography & Autobiography / Historical
  • Biography & Autobiography / Literary

Plot

A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss 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.