Tom Reiss

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

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.