Baku between East and West like the love of Ali and Nino

Ali has no doubts about Azerbaijan's cultural influence. Azerbaijan was born in Asia from the many invasions and influences as the Persians and Mongols.

Ali is the male protagonist, Azerbaijani, Muslim, of the beautiful book Ali and Nino set in the years 1918-1920 in Baku, written under the pseudonym of Kurban Said.

Nino is the female protagonist, Georgian, Christian, charming:

Ali courts her and loves her paroxysmally. But he loves more his country, and for his honour, no one can argue.

Baku is Ali. He is bewitching, determined, imaginary, noble.

Proud of its historical and intellectual tradition: the bookstores are called Ali and Nino. It is at the same time modern, with eye-catching architecture. There are two types of the city. The old quarter and the modern one.

1. Kurban Said, Ali and Nino, The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers Inc., New York, 1996 (https://www.google.it/books/edition/Ali_and_Nino/4TuEDwAAQBAJ?hl=it&gbpv=1&dq=Kurban+Said,+Ali+and+Nino&printsec=frontcover)

2. Giampiero Bellingeri, prefazione di Ali e Nino, Imprimatur publisher, Reggio Emilia, 2013, Page 7

3. Kurban Said, Ali e Nino (Italian edition), Imprimatur publisher, Reggio Emilia, 2013, Page 251 translated by author

Autore Roberto Matteucci

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