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Kurban Said


Born
in Kiev, Ukraine
October 01, 1905

Died
September 01, 1942

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Lev Nussimbaum (1905 - 1942) was a prolific Jewish writer who reinvented himself as a Muslim under the pseudonyms Essad Bey and Kurban Said. Despite his being an ethnic Jew, his politics were such that, before his origins were discovered, the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds". ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 9,720 ratings · 1,150 reviews · 3 distinct works � Similar authors
Ali and Nino
3.92 avg rating — 9,129 ratings — published 1937
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The Girl from the Golden Horn
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3.67 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 1938 — 27 editions
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“Close your eyes, cover your ears with your hands and open your soul.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino
tags: listen
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“This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed my lips together, and my hands gripped the windowsill. I saw the hand of Fatima, and all the visible world sank away from me.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino
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“Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino
tags: desert, men, trees, wood
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Polls

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De vliegeraar van Khaled Hosseini - 352 pagina's - Afghanistan
 
  22 votes, 16.4%

Het huis van de moskee van Kader Abdolah - 412 pagina's - Iran
 
  18 votes, 13.4%

Moord op de Nijl van Agatha Christie - 223 pagina's - Egypte
 
  13 votes, 9.7%

Honderd jaar eenzaamheid van Gabriel García Márquez - 428 pagina's - Columbia/Macondo
 
  10 votes, 7.5%

Duizend schitterende zonnen van Khaled Hosseini - 396 pagina's - Afghanistan
 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  8 votes, 6.0%

Atlantis van David Gibbins - 381 pagina's - Egypte/Rode Zee
 
  7 votes, 5.2%

Judas van Amos Oz - 304 pagina's - Israel
 
  6 votes, 4.5%

De vegetariër van Han Kang - 222 pagina's - Zuid Korea
 
  5 votes, 3.7%

Een kist ontploffende mango's van Mohammed Hanif - 415 pagina's - Pakistan
 
  4 votes, 3.0%

De ontembare van Guillermo Arriaga - 830 pagina's - Mexico
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

Ali en Nino van Kurban Said - 282 pagina's - Azerbeidzjan
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

Een huis voor meneer Biswas van V.S. Naipaul - 586 pagina's - Trinidad en Tobago
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

Koorts van Deon Meyer - 582 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

Het lelietheater van Lulu Wang - 495 pagina's - China
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

Blijf bij me van Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - 288 pagina's - Nigeria
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Mensenwerk van Han Kang - 240 pagina's - Zuid-Korea
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Het ding om je hals van Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 254 pagina's - Nigeria
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Weg naar huis van Yaa Gyasi - 400 pagina's - Ghana
 
  2 votes, 1.5%

Suikerbastaard van Jaap Scholten - 576 pagina's - Ethiopië
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

De schim van mijn liefde van Dương Thu Hương - 509 pagina's - Vietnam
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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