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product_id: 49604248
title: "Ali And Nino: A Love Story Paperback – 5 Oct. 2000"
brand: "kurban said"
price: "257 kr"
currency: DKK
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reviews_count: 8
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# Ali And Nino: A Love Story Paperback – 5 Oct. 2000

**Brand:** kurban said
**Price:** 257 kr
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- **What is this?** Ali And Nino: A Love Story Paperback – 5 Oct. 2000 by kurban said
- **How much does it cost?** 257 kr with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a gem !
*by B***T on 20 December 2018*

Join the select cult and relish this book. I chose it for our book group; and it got a very high rating from almost everyone. One thing I like is that it has no pretensions, in terms of plot or character. It is dead easy to read. The richness of the background (Azerbaijan; Persia; Georgia; and the backdrop of the ever-widening WW1) is, however, matched by the vividness of the characters. Beyond the book, so to speak, is the fascinating back-story. Don`t read too much, I would advise, about that back-story, until you have finished "Ali & Nino"; in fact, don`t read the blurb or the biog inside the front cover first......just go straight into the text; and come back to the story behind the book later. Then you can buy or borrow "The Orientalist" and find a whole, wider world of mystery and intrigue. "Ali and Nino" is terrific !

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth reading, though more of an ethnography than a love story
*by J***K on 24 October 2018*

This book is set in Baku, Azerbaijan, shortly before and during the First World War. Ali is a Moslem with a distiguished family history and proud of his culture. Nino is an upper class Georgian Christian who strongly identifies with Europe. They have been childhood sweethearts and plan to marry despite their cultural and religious differences. When war breaks out in Europe, Ali first dismisses it as a fight between unbelievers, but as it gradually encroaches on the region, Ali and Nina's lives get swept up in the war.This is a very vivid, enjoyable, and well-written book in which the many different places are brought to life by the author's eye for detail. According to the helpful introduction written by Paul Theroux, the author's name, Kurbain Said, is a pseudonym, and it's thought that the book was written by a European Jew who converted to Islam while living in the area. The fact that the book was written by an immigrant is reflected in the amount of detail in the descriptions (a native person probably wouldn't have made so much effort to explain everything). Because of the author's desire to capture as many aspects of life in the region as possible, harems, kidnappings of brides, the different ethnic groups, mountain villages, dervishes, etc., the love story itself suffers a bit and the book rather jumps from place to place. Parts of the story describing the relationship between the couple are moving, such as the struggles Nino had in coping with the suffocating life of a harem, but this is primarily an ethnography capturing life in the Caucasus region a hundred years ago with the love story used as a vehicle to allow the author to do this.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An amazing book that I wanted to read because I'm going ...
*by M***. on 23 March 2018*

An amazing book that I wanted to read because I'm going to Georgia this summer. It's full of history, culture, food and of course, the love story of Ali and Nino. I enjoyed it very much.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Ali And Nino: A Love Story
- Bread And Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia
- The Caucasus: An Introduction

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