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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.
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)?
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)?
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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