The Orientalist

Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

• Author(s): Tom Reiss,
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Pages: 496
• ISBN_10: 0812972767
  ISBN_13: 9780812972764
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Religious , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , Religion / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict ,

Description:... 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.