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Tom Reiss

Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life



Part history, part biography, part literary mystery story, THE ORIENTALIST traces the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.



Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, arriving in 1920s Germany via Persia and Paris, transformed himself from a frightened teenaged refugee into a celebrated adventurer and international man of mystery. In the age of Rudolf Valentino and Lawrence of Arabia, Lev became famous as “Essad Bey,” man of the East, and later, as the Nazi spell fell over Europe, as “Kurban Said,” the name under which he penned the enduring novel Ali and Nino. But his success shielded a fatal secret.



A racial and religious cross-dresser at a time when such quantities were as fixed as a death sentence, Lev changed his identity so many times in his race to escape his pursuers that he eventually became a mystery to himself. And the Gestapo was closing in…



Beginning with a year-long investigation that appeared in The New Yorker, Tom Reiss pursued Nussimbaum’s path across ten countries, from Baku to Berlin to Hollywood, and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal—and sometimes as heartbreaking—as his subject’s life.

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2006
Editorial Random House
Categoría Narrativa


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