Nobel of Baku

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The novel Nobel of Baku by Amir Pahlavan tells the story of the famous Swedish Nobel-Family and their activities in the oil industry of Baku in Azerbaijan. Ismayel, 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 stories of the beginning of oil production and of the monopoly conditions of the Baku oil industry and especially the long term fates of local people against the background of hard global political collisions.

The Turk-Azerbaijani writer and journalist Amir Pahlavan, born in 1959, teaches on History of World Culture at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University. His documentary film Baku Oil and Nobels was awarded two medals at the 2001 film festival in Nantes (France). Nobel of Baku is his 4th novel.