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Book-buying day yesterday so here come the books I bought. #readingasia2021 #Azerbaijan @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

#BookReport 41/20

Just these two but I loved them both ❤️

This is the love story between Ali (Muslim, Asian, boy from the desert) and Nino (Christian, European, girl from the city). They live in Baku, a city on the crossroad of religions, cultures, geography and politics. The book is set in the short period that #Azerbaijan became independent before it was occupied by the Soviet Union. I learned so much about the fascinating history of the Caucasus. Highly recommended!

#ReadingEurope2020 🇦🇿

Love story between young Muslim Ali Khan and Georgian Christian - Nino is set mostly in Azerbaijan during WWI and the Russian Revolution. What I really liked is the historical background on which this love story is set, the collision of East and West, the mixing of different cultures, traditions, modernization ... but my overall impression is more lukewarm. Too melodramatic, especially the dialogues. #ReadingEurope2020 #Azerbaijan

This is our Greenville Area Public Library Book club selection for May. Our Classics Book Club and our Friends of the Library Book Club are reading the same book. I‘m not sure how the “Friends” will like it, but as a classic from another culture, it gave me insight to how different the mindsets of these two cultures is. Ali and Nino try to bridge those differences with love, but the culture is so engrained, it is hard for them to ignore it.

#backpackeurope travelogue *fictional*
Country 57: Used travel hub in Italy to fly to Azerbaijan! This capital city is beautiful. I visited Maiden Tower, Old City, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, the Heydar Aliyev art center, and Yanar Dag perpetual natural fire.
This book had some lovely qualities. I loved Ali and Nino's love story (set in Baku) as they faced WWI and Soviet Revolution in their area, and it gave a good sense of time/place. 3.5/5

One of my favourite disappearing books, which you have to read if you go the Caucasus.

I really enjoyed this book even though the mindset of some of the characters did not match up with my own ideas, in particular about a woman‘s role in the House. It fit the time and place in which it was written and I agree with Paul Theroux‘s summary that it gives the reader some insight into the regional culture which was fascinating! I recommend it! #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia

My husband and I are planning a trip to Georgia so I picked This classic up to learn a little more about the region. The first chapter already has me hooked! #LitsyAtoZ (the letter ‘K‘)

The story, published in 1937, of a Muslim boy from Azerbaijan and a Christian girl from Georgia who fall in love and struggle to belong in each other's worlds. This beautiful book left me fascinated with a part of the world I know little of but wish to learn more about . #setineasterneurope #uncannyoctober

hEine großartige Geschichte. Und doch gab es ein paar Schwächen, die meiner Begeisterung einen Dämpfer verpasst haben.
"Ali und Nino" von Kurban Said, erschienen im Ullstein Verlag

- gelesen in einer Leserunde bei Whatchareadin http://renies-lesetagebuch.blogspot.de/2017/05/kurban-said-ali-und-nino.html

#TBRtemptation post! Written in 1937 Vienna, in the vein of "Dr. Zhivago" & "Romeo & Juliet", & re-released after being out-of-print for decades, this is the love story of aristocratic Muslim schoolboy Ali & Christian Euro-esque Nino. To be together, they flee a blood feud & scandal across deserts. At Ali's uncle's Persian palace, they are called back to Baku, Azerbaijan, where war threatens Ali's loyalty to Nino. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

#MisogynyMinute.