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Of Strangers and Bees - A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale (Paperback): Hamid Ismailov Of Strangers and Bees - A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale (Paperback)
Hamid Ismailov; Translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
R319 R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. Following a strange dream Uzbek writer Sheikhov is convinced that the medieval polymath Avicenna has been condemned to roam the world for centuries. The novel follows Avicenna in various incarnations across the ages from Ottoman Turkey to medieval Germany and Renaissance Italy. Sheikhov plies the same route, though his troubles are distinctly modern as he endures the petty humiliations of exile. Drawing from his own experience as a writer in exile, Hamid Ismailov has crafted another masterpiece, combining traditional oral storytelling and contemporary global fiction in a modern reincarnation of a famous Sufi parable.

Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup (Paperback): Zira Nauryzbai, Lilya Kalaus Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup (Paperback)
Zira Nauryzbai, Lilya Kalaus; Translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
R290 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Save R65 (22%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A warrior’s power lies not in his weapons but in his heart. Batu is just an ordinary kid in present-day Almaty, worried about bullies, school, and his mom’s new baby…until the day he meets Aspara, the Golden Warrior. Aspara steps straight out of Batu’s notebook cover—and out of Kazakhstan’s past. Aspara has been waiting hundreds of years to be summoned to the human world and to finally get his chance to search for the Golden Cup, a magical talisman sent down from the heavens. When the Golden Cup was lost, Aspara watched as many of his friends and family were killed or disappeared. Craving adventure and a sense of purpose, Batu sets out with Aspara and his own friends to find the Golden Cup, plunging them into an adventure through a world where myths come alive. But there are others looking for the Cup, and they’ll do anything to make sure the kids fail. Will Batu and his friends make it out alive (and make it home in time for dinner)?

Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup (Hardcover): Zira Nauryzbai, Lilya Kalaus Batu and the Search for the Golden Cup (Hardcover)
Zira Nauryzbai, Lilya Kalaus; Translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
R487 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R67 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A warrior’s power lies not in his weapons but in his heart. Batu is just an ordinary kid in present-day Almaty, worried about bullies, school, and his mom’s new baby…until the day he meets Aspara, the Golden Warrior. Aspara steps straight out of Batu’s notebook cover—and out of Kazakhstan’s past. Aspara has been waiting hundreds of years to be summoned to the human world and to finally get his chance to search for the Golden Cup, a magical talisman sent down from the heavens. When the Golden Cup was lost, Aspara watched as many of his friends and family were killed or disappeared. Craving adventure and a sense of purpose, Batu sets out with Aspara and his own friends to find the Golden Cup, plunging them into an adventure through a world where myths come alive. But there are others looking for the Cup, and they’ll do anything to make sure the kids fail. Will Batu and his friends make it out alive (and make it home in time for dinner)?

Amanat - Women's Writing from Kazakhstan (Paperback): Zaure Batayeva, Shelley Fairweather-Vega Amanat - Women's Writing from Kazakhstan (Paperback)
Zaure Batayeva, Shelley Fairweather-Vega
R555 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R86 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aladdin's Magic Chest (Paperback): Sona Adalian Aladdin's Magic Chest (Paperback)
Sona Adalian; Translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega; Vladimir Reznik
R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gaia, Queen of Ants (Paperback): Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega Gaia, Queen of Ants (Paperback)
Hamid Ismailov, Shelley Fairweather-Vega
R496 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife in the Uzbekistan of his childhood. His Irish girlfriend Emer struggles with her own adolescent trauma from growing up in war-torn Bosnia. Domrul is the caretaker for Gaia, the eighty-year-old, powerful wife of a Soviet party boss with a mysterious past. One of Ismailov's few novels written in Uzbek, Gaia, Queen of Ants offers a rare portrait of a complex and little-known part of the world. A plot centered on political corruption and ethnic conflict is punctuated with Sufi philosophy and religious gullibility. As Ismailov's characters grapple with questions of faith, power, sex, and family, Gaia, Queen of Ants presents a moving tale of universal themes set against a Central Asian backdrop in the twenty-first century.

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