Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1981)
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Kuwait1142.
Description:
وتدور الرواية حول معاناة معلم مصرى يسافر مع زوجته إلى الكويت لتحسين أوضاعه المادية والاجتماعية، إلا أنه يواجه الكثير من المصاعب، بداية من رفض والده سفرهن حتى معاناته وألمه فى الكويت.
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The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov, Andrew Bromfield EN
Country: Asia / 
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Kazakhstan where the Soviets test atomic weapons. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour's daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radio-active water changes Yerzhan. He will never grow into a man. While the girl he loves becomes a beautiful woman.
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Jamilia by Chinghiz Aitmatov EN
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
A modern classic of Soviet literature--a love story that ranks alongside Turgenev's First Love.
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The Devils' Dance by Hamid Ismailov EN
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
"On New Years' Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest - based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon's time,... continue
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The Railway by Hamid Ismailov, Robert Chandler EN
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this compelling novel introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colorful lives offer a unique and comic picture of a little-known land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bolsheviks, and a plethora of Uzbeks, Russians, Persians, Jews, Koreans, Tatars, and Gypsies. At the heart o... continue
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Gaia, Queen of Ants by Hamid Ismailov EN
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
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... continue
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Djamila by Tschingis Aitmatow DE
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Louis Aragon schrieb über das Buch: Ich schwöre es, es ist die schönste Liebesgeschichte der Welt.
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El calvario de Abdías by Chinguiz Aitmátov ES
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
El protagonista de esta novela, Abdías, un antiguo seminarista excomulgado tras comprobar que los sacerdotes están tan lejos de Dios como los comunistas, decide dedicarse al periodismo y escribir un reportaje sobre los recolectores clandestinos de una variedad de marihuana, el anasha. Después de introducirse en la red de tráfico de drogas, emprende un viaje a la estepa en el transcurso del cual despertará los recelos de los jefes de la organización y se verá envuelto en múltiples peripecias.
La narración de los acontecimientos alt... continue