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Ali and Nino Michele talks to Peter Mayer, the publisher of Ali and Nino.

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The book, first published in 1937, is a sort of Romeo and Juliet of the Caucasus, on the eve of the Russian Revolution and World War One. Mayer says he was inspired to reissue the book, because it prefigures the ethnic divisions that are currently flaring in the Caucasus.