Chingiz Aĭtmatov
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"Samyĭ silʹnyĭ, glubokiĭ, gorʹkiĭ i dramatichnyĭ roman Chingiza Aĭtmatova, vpervye opublikovannyĭ v 1986 godu i stavshiĭ odnim iz glavnykh literaturnykh sobytiĭ kont︠s︡a KhKh veka v nasheĭ strane. Tragichny sudʹby i li︠u︡deĭ, i zvereĭ, stavshikh geroi︠a︡mi ėtogo romana, -- dobrogo i chelovechnogo molodogo seminarista Avdii︠a︡ i sineglazoĭ volchit︠s︡y Akbary, olit︠s︡etvori︠a︡i︠u︡shcheĭ v knige mudrostʹ...
Author
Series
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"A lonely, world-weary journalist breaks up with his beloved and returns to his native village in the spurs of the Tien Shan. Having agreed to act as a guide for a group that has come to hunt snow leopards, he has no idea that he will be drawn into a dangerous criminal adventure... And that his fate will unexpectedly become intertwined with the fate of an equally lonely snow leopard, expelled by his relatives... A strong and tough work by Ch. Aitmatov,...
Author
Language
English
Description
This collection of three Aitmatov short stories basically was dedicated to James Riordan, the British academic and the best translator of Aitmatov into English. It contains his translation of the 1960 short story 'Camel Eye' as well as Rahima Abduvalieva's translations of 'The Boy Soldier' and 'The Monkey Girl and the Satchel'. The latter was originally written in German as a fairy tale for Aitmatov's children.
16) Mother Earth
Author
Language
English
Description
Aitmatov is an enigma. For a start he is not Russian, but Kirgiz. Yet he has gained distinction through the medium of Russian. He writes not one but two versions of each work: first in Kirgiz, then in Russian, sometimes under a different title and in a different version, in the manner of Conrad, Nabokov and Narayan. He is at once both liberal and conservative; he has been embraced by the Soviet establishment from Khrushchov to Brezhnev, Andropov to...
