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Lev Nussimbaum, gecen yüzyilin hemen basinda, kozmopolit Baküde dogdu.Babasi zengin bir petrolcü, annesi ise komünist sempatizani ve eylemcisi olan Lev, aldigi iyi egitimden cok serüven romanlariyla ruhunu besleyen yalniz ve hayalperest bir cocuktu. Ekim Devrimi, kendisinin ve ailesinin hayatini altüst etti. Ömrü boyunca komünistlerden nefret edecek olan genc Yahudi, cok sevdigi ancak giderek tekinsiz ve yasanmaz bir yer haline gelen Baküyü ve...

WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYGeneral Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar-because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave-who rose higher i...

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013 `Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman'Enthralling' Guardian`The Three Musketeers! By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti tothe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss, like the novelistbefore him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero.

Born to a black slave mother and a fugitive white French nobleman in present-day Haiti, Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but then made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy.

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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 fo...

Die zahlreichen literarischen Verknüpfungen zwischen den Werken Franz Kafkas und Haruki Murakamis, denen sich diese semiotische Abhandlung widmet, haben bisher in der internationalen Forschung kaum Beachtung gefunden. Dabei zeigt sich im Zwischenspiel der phantastischen Erzählungen Kafkas und Murakamis nicht nur deren unauflösliche Verbindung für die Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, sondern auch eine Reihe neuer Erkenntnisse über das Ph...

Subtitled, "In Search Of A Man Caught Between East & West".

»Vater: Ölmillionär. Mutter: radikale Revolutionärin. So begann mein Dasein.«Es sollte ein Leben voller Spannungen und unerwarteter Wendungen werden, das den sensiblen jüdischen Jungen Lev Nussimbaum ¿ 1905 in der aserbaidschanischen Hauptstadt und Ölmetropole Baku geboren ¿ in den Jahren der russischen Revolution über Zentralasien, Persien und die Türkei schließlich bis ins Berlin der Wilden Zwanziger Jahre führte. Dort studierte der Oriental...