Ali and Nino

Ali and Nino is one of the masterpieces of world literature. A book with a rare force of beauty. The love story of Ali Shirvanshir, a young Muslim aristocrat, and Nino Kipriani, daughter of a Christians businessman, takes place during the Russian Revolution and the First World War. In these historical contexts, the love between Ali and Nino ignites and transcends all boundaries of traditional culture and values. Kurban Said writes about a time in which different cultures are mixed and are inevitably in tensions, a society far from a multicultural society. The novel of Ali and Nino offers a colorful picture of a world and culture, which does not exist any longer, yet the memories of such a world have remained attractive to this day. Kurban Said is the name of a Turkish Arab colonial adventurer Essed Bey, who lived between World War I and World War II in Berlin and Vienna. He introduces himself as a fighter in the Caucasus, who was praised by Goebbels and Mussolini. Behind the mask of Essed Bey, the Jewish writer Lev Nussimbaum) is hidden. The actual name of the author was revealed in the past decade.