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The Girl from the Golden Horn

The Girl from the Golden Horn Paperback - 2003

by Kurban Said

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Girl from the Golden Horn
  • Author Kurban Said
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Anchor Bks E
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 280
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003
  • Date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G140003082XI4N00
  • ISBN 9781400030828

From the publisher

The life of Kurban Said is surrounded by mystery–a story as exotic as his fiction, as a recent article in The New Yorker revealed. It is believed that Kurban Said was a confected name representing the writing of one Essad Bey and his collaboration with an Austrian countess, the Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels. Essad Bey was itself an assumed name of Lev Nussimbaum, who was Jewish, born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1905. In his youth Nussimbaum became a convert to Islam and in the early 1920s he associated himself with literary and journalistic circles in Berlin. In the late 1930s he reportedly fled from Nazi Germany to Austria, where he became involved with the family of Elfriede Ehrenfels. After Austria began to fall into the Nazi ambit it is believed that Essad Bey fled to Italy, where he died in 1942.

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“Alluring, romantic, exotic.... narrated with a sparkling, high-spirited intelligence.”--Elle

“Said’s brilliant novel [of] exile, loss, and identities thrown into uncertainty . . . create[s] an unusual atmosphere of romance and sudden brutality, exoticism and cold precision.” –Newsday

“Lovely and seductive. . . . As characters reinvent themselves and struggle between conflicting worlds, it ultimately seems there’s no place like home.” —Book

“A deeply felt, lucidly presented contrast of old and new worlds... Any reader who loved Ali and Nino won't want to miss it.” –Kirkus

“[Said] eloquently evokes the shifting relationships between East and West, Christian and Muslim, male and female.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A magnificent writer.” —Paul Theroux

“As in his first poignant novel, Ali and Nino, Said uses a love story between members of two cultures to portray the overwhelming conflict when civilizations clash.” —Bookreporter.com