The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss

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.

"A brainy, nimble, remarkable book."
--Chicago Tribune

"Thrilling, novelistic and rich with the personal and political madness of early-twentieth-century Europe."
--Entertainment Weekly

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