Orientalist

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1964, Tom Reiss is an American author and journalist who lives in New York. He is the author of The Orientalist , an acclaimed biography of Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurban Said) which was shortlisted for the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize; and The Black Count , a book about the real Count of Monte Christo. Klappentext The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. 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. Zusammenfassung The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. 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.

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Tom Reiss

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Product details

• Authors: Tom Reiss, Reiss Tom
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.07.2006
• EAN: 9780099483779
• ISBN: 978-0-09-948377-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Azerbaijan, Biography: writers, History and Archaeology, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities