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A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and healers reciting Manas, but instead witnesses the full scale of the epic's wrath on his life.

Translated by Donald Rayfield, this beautiful title brings together the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan - a world of poetry recitals, polo matches and a culturally diverse Islam that has rarely been portrayed in Western literature.

Erjan, das musikbegabte Wunderkind, lebt in einer Siedlung von Viehhirten im Schatten des sowjetischen Atomwaffentestgeländes Semipalatinsk. Er verliebt sich in das Nachbarmädchen Aisulu und den amerikanischen Rock'n'Roll Star Dean Reed. Plötzlich hört Erjan auf zu wachsen, und das Paradies der Kindheit zerfällt.Die kasachische Steppe ist in der poetischen Novelle »Wunderkind Erjan« der Austragungsort des Konflikts von Mensch und Natur. Ihre u...

In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils' Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile traces the fate of the medieval polymath Avicenna, who shaped Islamic thought and science for centuries. The novel follows Avicenna across the ages from Ottoman Turkey to medieval Germany and Renaissance Italy.

Set partly in contemporary England and partly in in Soviet-era Central Asia, this novel follows the lives of Domrul, a young Meskhetian Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife and political problems in the Uzbekistan of his childhood, Emer, his Irish girlfriend, the victim of a whole different set of ethnic conflicts, and an 80-year-old Russian-Uzbek client, Gaia, with a mysterious past"--

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The "reality novel" A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first-hand account on the militants and Taliban's internal life. The novel begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator's haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia, and tells the stor...

Set in Kazakhstan, this features a young boy who grows up where the Soviets test atomic weapons. After diving into a radioactive lake, he changes and will never grow into a man. A fairy tale love story, which looks at the disastrous environmental legacy of the Cold War. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.

The "reality novel" A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a first-hand account on the militants and Taliban's internal life. The novel begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator's haunting description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV while he is on holiday in Central Asia, and tells the stor...