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Ali and Nino, first published in Vienna in 1937, has been hailed as one of the enduring romantic novels of the century.
Ali Khan is an Islamic boy from Azerbaijan with his ancestors' passion for the desert and warrior legends, but his lover Nino, a beautiful Christian girl from Georgia, is the child with a more European sensibility. Close to one another from childhood despite admonishments from their families, the lovers spend their days in Baku on the edge of the Caspian sea. But it is here in a city where Orient and Occident collide, that they are inevitably caught up in the events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Both must confront the divided world that surrounds them as well as their own deepest needs.
