The Orientalist
In Search of a Man caught between East and West
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407053820
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
A highly enjoyable mingling of scholarship and sleuthing that elegantly solves the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers
Paul Theroux
A highly entertaining biography of a very unusual person
Literary Review
A remarkable story of East meeting West, and the fantastic historical figure who stood astride both worlds, during an almost equally fantastic moment in time. This is history and biography that reads like a great novel
Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley
A wonderous tale, beautifully told...mesmerising, poignant and almost incredible
New York Times
An extraordinary tale of reinvention
Guardian
Extraordinary on many counts... It has taken the tireless detective work of Tom Reiss to uncover the real Lev Nussimbaum
Sunday Times
Funny, exactly observed and humane
Daily Telegraph
He has a sharp eye for incongruities, and peppers the book with entertaining footnotes
Sunday Telegraph
Meticulous and fascinating... Inspiring reading
Spectator
Wonderfully compelling... Deeply moving
Sunday Times