About this title: A mix of romance and wartime adventure set in Azerbaijan during World War I and the Russian Revolution, this novel is about a Tartar Muslim who marries a Georgian Christian, rebelling against his traditional male-chauvinist background. It was first published in German in 1937, and its authorship is in dispute: is it the work of Lev Nussimbaum (a.k.a. Kurban Said), or of the Austrian Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels von Bodmershop, who was Nussimbaum's lover?
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
Description: Good. 45-V Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Trade Papeback
Publisher: Anchor Books, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing trade paperback, Anchor, 2006. VG+. Smooth spine, one very light crease to upper front corner. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2000-10-03
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
Description: Good. Mild shelf and corner wear; Tanning to page edges; Mild rubbing and wear to covers and spine; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books; Random House, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 282 pp., map; 21 cm. First published, 1937, under title: Ali und Nino. Translated from the German. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated "First Anchor Books Edition, October 2000. " "First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
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Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. 0385720408 Used in good condition! Very minimal pen underlining/writing. Corners are worn/frayed. We ship daily with delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385720403ISBN:0385720408
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Cover has use around edges; tear on lower edge of back cover; note on inner cover; minor writing on several pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"1/09 This story, presented as a love story, is really a history of Baku in the Georgian area near Persia during World War I. It is a story of western European culture colliding with Asian Muslim culture and the conflicts created by two different ideologies. It is a story about love, honor, tradition, when to fight, and when to wait. An interesting description of a people and a period of history."
""It is the eve of WWI in Baku, Azerbeidshan, a city poised precariously between east and west. Ali, a Muslim boy from a proud, aristocratic family, has fallen in love with the beautiful Nino, a Christian girl with distinctly European sensibilities." Here are two young people living in the same city of Baku with such different cultural values, beliefs, and wealth. This story envelopes well the cultural aspects of each city these two encounter in their lives because of the war. A reader does get a sense of grit and violence of the time and era."
"This was a great book. It was assigned for my Russian Imperial History class and I didn't exactly read it then. but I am glad that I have read this book now.
It was an interesting book that follows the lives and love of Ali khan and Nino K (can't remember the rest of her last name). Ali is a muslem azerbaijani who is from an almost royal family in Azerbaijan. Nino is a georgian, greek orthodox christrian who also grew up in Azerbaijan. They fall in love and the story is their journey in both Azerbijan , then to Persia (Iran) and back to Azerbaijan. All the while, world war I and the russian revolution is happening.
I was most intrigued by the section on their life in Persia and how different it was between Azerbaijan. Both are muslin countries but in Azerbaijan, the women did not need to wear veils or stay in the harem. Ali bought Nino everything she could want but nino still was not happy. Ali realizes this and decides that her happiness is more important than him being in Persia. For a 20 year old boy in turn of the 20th century world that must have been hard and a challenge to buck tradition and family and friends because you do love your wife and don't think of her as just an object and a thing -- as women are described from the rest of the muslim characters in the book.
It was a good book, a little hard to get through at times, but it was a good and interesting book."
"a touching story taking place in azerbajan in 1935 about a romance between an orthodox christian woman and a muslim man. the book was first published in 1937 under a fictitious name--it only came out 30 years later that it was co-written by a woman and man, yes, an orthodox christian and a muslim. we are reading it in preparation for our trip in 2010 to the five 'stans--it is a wonderful source of sociological, political and religious background."
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