Ali and Nino
However, in a scene reminiscent of that same "Blood and Oil in the Orient" quotation, in chapter 22 of "Ali and Nino", Ali tells his father, "Asia is dead..." To which Ali's father replies, "Asia is not dead. Its borders only have changed, changed forever. Baku is now Europe. And that is not just a coincidence. There were no Asiatics left in Baku any longer." The working title of "Ali and Nino", according to the 1937 contract between Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels von Bodmerschof and the Tal publishing company, was "The Dying Orient".