Books from Kyrgyzstan
24 popular kyrgyzstani books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Kyrgyzstan.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Seven escaped mental patients--including reincarnations of Genghis Khan, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great--trudge across a nameless landscape, pursued by an omnipresent snake and haunted by their past lives' brutal transgressions. Led by a mysterious Emperor who promises deliverance to the Holy Land, these travelers are actually pilgrims of their own fractured histories, each confronting the violent, sensual, and deeply human moments that have defined their existence. Blending elements of Central Asian epic tradition with surrealist storytelling, Sultan Raev crafts a novel that is at once a scat... continue
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Dans les eaux du lac interdit by Hamid Ismaïlov FR
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Un voyageur anonyme a pris place à bord d’un train pour un interminable voyage à travers les steppes kazakhes. Le train s’arrête dans une toute petite gare et un garçon monte à bord pour vendre des boulettes de lait caillé. Il joue Brahms au violon de manière prodigieuse, sortant les passagers de leur torpeur. Le voyageur découvre que celui qu’il avait pris pour un enfant est en fait un homme de vingt-sept ans. L’histoire de Yerzhan peut alors commencer... À travers ce conte envoûtant, l’auteur nous livre une parabole glaçante sur la folie destructrice des hommes et la résistance acharnée d’un... 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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Dshamilja : Erzählung by Čingiz Ajtmatov DE
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
Im zentralasiatischen nordöstlichen Kirgisien, irgendwo im Tal des Kukureuflusses, im Sommer des dritten Kriegsjahres 1943, hat sie sich abgespielt, »die schönste Liebesgeschichte der Welt« (Aragon). Said, der damals Fünfzehnjährige, der nicht wußte, wie Liebe sich zuträgt, erzählt sie mit großem Erstaunen.»Hier, in diesem hochmütigen Paris, das alles gesehen, alles gelesen, alles erlebt hat, merke ich plötzlich, daß mir Werther, Bérénice, Antonius und Kleopatra, Manon Lescaut, die Education sentimentale oder Dominique nichts bedeuten, weil ich Dshamilja gelesen habe«, schreibt Louis Aragon in... continue
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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
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Foreign Fighters and International Peace : Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home by Cholpon Orozobekova EN
Country: Asia / Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Description:
This book sheds light on the emergence, roots and gradual change of jihadism and exposes its detrimental impact on human lives. The author collected insightful interviews with ISIS fighters and also with women who joined ISIS. The book analyzes root causes and motivations of people based on the firsthand information and proposes the non-enigma cycles radicalization theory, and argues that two main cycles- grievances and resentment, and the radical ideology are the most significant. The book addresses the current situation with 70,000 women and children, who were family members of ISIS fighters... 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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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.