The School was featured in the beginning of “Ali and Nino.”Ī li and Nino is set in Nussimbaum’s home city of Baku at the dawn of the First World War. Realni School (today, Economics University) in Baku. Nussimbaum was a Russian Jew who was raised in Baku and exiled to Berlin following the Bolshevik Revolution. Following the publication of Tom Reiss’ 2005 investigation of Ali and Nino’s authorship, The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, most accept Reiss’ assertion that the author of the novel was Lev Nussimbaum.

Some suggest that the author was the Austrian Baroness Elfriede von Ehrenfels, while others assert that it was written by the Azeri nationalist poet Yusif Vezir. “Kurban Said” is known to be a pseudonym, but the author’s true identity has been a subject of widespread speculation. One of the mysteries of Ali and Nino is its authorship. These honorable characteristics still resonate today, making Ali a model hero for the region in post-Soviet times. Ali’s brave and well-reasoned defense of his beloved homeland and his acceptance of other cultures make him a positive hero for the Caucasus. A novel of love and war set at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ali and Nino remains relevant to the often-tumultuous political situation in the Caucasus, which is part of the reason it continues to be popular today. The book is displayed in the regional section at Prospero’s Books in Tbilisi, has lent its characters’ names to a statue of two lovers in Batumi, and, according to Thomas Goltz (the author of Georgia Diary), was required reading for Alex Rondeli’s students interested in Georgian politics. The novel is frequently cited in the news when ethnic conflicts break out in the Caucasus and Foreign Policy magazine listed it as one of “ The foreign-policy books you should be reading to get ready for election season”. The novel Ali and Nino by Kurban Said has become the book to read before visiting Georgia, despite the fact that it is set in Azerbaijan and was originally written in German.

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