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978-1-84659-032-0
Fiction
July 2007
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
136 pages
£7.99

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• About the Author
• About the Translator
• Book Info
• Excerpts
• Reviews


About the Author
Chingiz Aïtmatov was born in Kyrgyzstan in 1928. His work has appeared in over one hundred languages, and has received numerous awards, including the Lenin Prize.

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Reviews

'The most beautiful love story in the world.'
Louis Aragon

'James Riordan has rendered Aïtmatov's prose into simple yet lyrical English.'
Telegraph

'A simple and beautiful evocation of time, place and the power of love...deserves to be known as one of the world's great and timeless love stories.'
Booktrust

'A beautiful love story...the relationship that grows between Jamilia and co-worker Daniyar, a sullen soldier new to the village who has arrived wounded from the war, is subtle and beautifully developed.'
The Bookseller

'An extremely brave, tremblingly vivid and skilful writer...a song that flew against the ideology of the time, showing that life is always bigger and more complicated than any superimposed schemes.'
Steppe Magazine

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Excerpts
In the evening, as we rode through the ravine, I felt I was being transported to a different world. I listened to Daniyar with my eyes half-closed, and before me flashed strangely familiar scenes from childhood. First the delicate, smokey-blue, migratory spring clouds floating at crane's height above the yurtas; then herds of horses racing across the ringing earth, neighing and pounding to their summer pastures, the young stallions with streaming forelocks and wild, black fire in their eyes proudly overtaking their mares.

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