The Devil's Dance [electronic resource]
Hamid Ismailov2018
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Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019 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, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of
Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with
his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla's
inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing. The Devils' Dance
brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century T...
Main title:
The Devil's Dance [electronic resource] / Hamid Ismailov
Author:
Hamid Ismailov, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Tilted Axis Press, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (416 pages, 4807601.0 Bytes)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781911284123
Language:
English
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BRN:
528673
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