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Title: Ali and Nino : A Love Story by Kurban Said ISBN: 0-385-72040-8 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very touching novel.
Comment: Indeed, this is a great work of litterature. Rarely have I been so engrossed in a novel like this. Some pages I would return and read over and over again. I admired the purity of the two characters and their love toward each other. This is a book truelly unique and there is no sequel. (...) I recommend this to anyone who enjoys tales of unfufilled love.They say one does his or her most important readings during the childhood. But I have never been touched by a love story like this before. I always believed the Thornbirds, the tale of Ralph and Meggie,was the perfect tale of unfulfilled love. In the traditon of Leily and Majnoon, Romeo and Julliett, Khosro and Shirin, Ralph and Meggie, now we have Ali and Nino, a newly discovered jewel.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a Hidden Jewel!
Comment: First, you simply must read this book. There's no way around that.
Ali and Nino is a lyrically written story of love and war, honor and country, cultural blend and clash set in WWI-era Transcaucasia (ie, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia). The novel has simply *all* the elements of greatness: well-developed characters, a vivid setting, a gripping plot, and an examination of larger themes -- all crammed into this little-known, relatively compact work.
Love in the face of cultural obstacles, in the face of war and patriotic duty. Love in its innocence, its longing, its maturity. Love between people, love for a people, and the tragedy of a lost world. It's really an incredible, incredible book -- one which, despite its age, seems more capable of tackling the issues we see in our own post-cold-war world than any other book I've read.
Read this book. It will delight and reward you.
Rating: 3
Summary: okay..
Comment: An interesting, provocative book. I could not put it down! However it is very much orientalist in perspective. East and West and juxtuposed against one another with the west being progressive and the east being backward and irrational. Muslims are ignorently referred to as Mohammadians and are potrayed as stupid and savage acting. The book is a great entertaining read but only if u can see through its orientalist if not racist agenda.
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Title: The Girl from the Golden Horn by Kurban Said ISBN: 140003082X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson ISBN: 0802117376 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars by Nicholas Griffin ISBN: 0312308531 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Azerbaijani-English English-Azerbaijani Dictionary and Phrasebook by Nicholas Awde, Nicholas Ande, Famil Ismailov ISBN: 0781806844 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War by Thomas De Waal ISBN: 0814719449 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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