Ali and Nino: A Love Story

Hailed as one of the most romantic epic novels of all time, Kurban Said’s Ali and Nino is “poignant and beautiful . . . alive with a vividly unique vision of colliding cultures and enduring love” (Newsweek).

Ali and Nino, two lovers from vastly different backgrounds, grow up together in carefree innocence in Baku on the Caspian Sea. Here, where Eastern and Occidental collide, they are inevitably drawn into the events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Torn apart by the turm...