The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss, Paul Michael (Narrator)
Requirements: MP3 player, 64 kbps, ~15:50:00, 453 MB
Overview: Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.
Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution became celebrated across fascist Europe. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino – a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust – is still in print today.
But Lev’s life grew wilder than his wildest stories. He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity – until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal. His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck – also a friend of both Freud’s and Einstein’s – was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States. Lev was invited to be Mussolini’s official biographer – until the Fascists discovered his true identity. Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book – discovered in a half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone – helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound.
Genre: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction, Biography
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