Book details

Title:

Nobel of Baku

Author:

Pahlavan Amir

Publication date:

2004

Annotation:

The novel "Nobel of Baku" by Amir Pahlavan tells the story of the famous Swedish Nobel-Family and their activities un the oil industry of Baku in Azerbaijan. Ismayil, the main character of the novel, experiences his country as an independent nation when he returns after 70 years of emigration. By observing the changing times and discovering the differences between the past and the present, the reader is also immersed in the fascinating collision-course of memories. Readers get to know facts an stories about the beginning of oil production, the monopoly conditions of the Baku oil industry and especially about the long term fates of local people against the background of hard global political collisions.

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