The Orientalist Author:Tom Reiss "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 elegan... more »tly solving the puzzle of one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers." -Paul Theroux« less