The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West by Tom Reiss

The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

Tom Reiss

433 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to re...

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Moods

adventurous 83%
informative 66%
reflective 66%
mysterious 33%
sad 33%
tense 16%

Pace

medium 66%
fast 16%
slow 16%

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