The Orientalist

“Mixing memory with desire, this marvelous and original book once more reminds us of the ways through which the imagination becomes a refuge from the uncontrollable cruelties of reality.” -Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran “I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss’s The Orientalist, for it’s mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers.” -Paul Theroux