In the 1950s, however, Jenia Graman, a German who had settled in England during the war, found a copy on a Berlin bookstall, translated it into English, and had it published for a second time. The outbreak of the Second World War could easily have meant that Ali and Nino was never discovered by an English-speaking audience.
Having then gone on to Italy, he ended up under house arrest in Positano, where he died of a rare blood disease in 1942. His father, he said, had written Ali and Nino and managed to get it published in Vienna through a cousin who lived there. A flamboyant in the literary world of 1920s Berlin, he fled from Nazi Germany to Austria. Ali and Nino, he declared is a pure Azerbaijani novel. Was it possible that the Austrian countess who signed the original publishing contract, Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels, could have written a novel that displays such extraordinary insight into the atmosphere of pre-First World War Baku and intimate knowledge of Muslim culture? Recent research seems to prove, once and for all, that her friend Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who had escaped Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution and settled in Berlin, was the real 'Kurban Said'.īorn in Baku in 1905, Nussimbaum had a passion for the Orient, and in his youth, converted to Islam. His lover, Nino, a beautiful Christian girl from. Buy with confidence Book is in new, never-used condition. Abrams (2013) ISBN 10: 159020817X ISBN 13: 9781590208175 New Softcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Books Unplugged (Amherst, NY, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. For a long time the identity of the author who used the pseudonym 'Kurban Said' to write Ali and Nino, published in Vienna in 1937, has been surrounded by controversy. Ali Khan is an Islamic boy from Azerbaijan with his ancestors passion for the desert and warrior legends. Ali and Nino: A Love Story Said, Kurban Published by Harry N.
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