Kurban Said
1) Ali and Nino
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Language
English
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Ali Khan is an Islamic boy from Azerbaijan with his ancestors\' passion for the desert and warrior legends. His lover, Nino, a beautiful Christian girl from Georgia, has a more European sensibility. They spend their days in Baku on the Caspian Sea, where Orient and Occident collide, and are inevitably caught up in the events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. First published in Vienna in 1937, Ali and Nino has been hailed as one of...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kurban Said's classic novel of thwarted love, exile, and desire explores the clash of values between conservative prewar Istanbul and decadent postwar Berlin. The Girl From the Golden Horn is the story of one girl's choice between two worlds. Asiadeh Anbara and her father, once members of the Turkish royal court, have fled the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to start a new life in Berlin. Years earlier Asiadeh had been engaged to a Turkish prince,...
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