The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781400062652 (1400062659)
Publish date: February 15th 2005
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 433
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Jewish,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
Germany
bookshelves: biography, nonfiction, winter-20122013, wwii, paper-read, dip-in-now-and-again, azerbaijan, adventure, history, jewish, slavic, anti-semitic, dodgy-narrator, wwi, teh-brillianz, italy, germany, france, spring-2013, austria, iran-persia Read from November 30, 2012 to March 27, 2013 D...
Dedication:For Lolek,who showed me how to travel,and Julie,who keeps me from going too far.I wish they had met.Opening: On a cold morning in Vienna, I walked a maze of narrow streets on the way to see a man who promised to solve the mystery of Kurban Said.It's hard to warm to the chameleon, Lev, how...
Rather than thinking of this as a biography, it may be more accurate to consider it a story of a man and his life in their historical context. I know that may not be a salient distinction for some, but I've read a good number of reviews that complain about the story being overly inclusive, padded, o...
Having recently completed Ali and Nino: A Love Story and having given it 5 stars, I wanted to know more about the author. The author Lev Nussimbaum, born a Jew, used the pen name Kurban Said. Actually both this book and The Girl from the Golden Horn were registered under the author Elfriede Ehrenfel...
Part biography, part history. I enjoyed it at first and felt like I was learning a fair bit. Then the chapter on Weimar Germany happened and for me it never really got better--possibly just because life intervened and I wanted to get done with the book already, which is never the best mood for readi...
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