Farewell, Aylis

A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works

AvAkram Aylisli

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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The three novellas of Farewell, Aylis take place over decades of transition in a country that rather resembles modern-day Azerbaijan.In Yemen, a Soviet traveler takes an afternoon stroll and finds himself suspected of defecting to America. In Stone Dreams, an actor explores the limits of one man’s ability to live a moral life amid conditions of sociopolitical upheaval, ethnic cleansing, and petty professional intrigue. In A Fantastical Traffic Jam, those who serve the aging leader of a corrupt, oil-rich country scheme to stay alive. Farewell, Aylis, a new essay by the author that reflects on the political firestorm surrounding these novellas and his current situation as a prisoner of conscience in Azerbaijan, was commissioned especially for this Academic Studies Press edition.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-06
Mått:152 x 228 x 30 mm
Vikt:655 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Central Asian Literatures in Translation
Antal sidor:338
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618117946
Översättare:Katherine E. Young

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Akram Aylisli is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist, and editor. His works have been translated from his native Azeri into more than 20 languages. In 2014 Aylisli was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in connection with his novella Stone Dreams. Mr. Aylisli lives under de facto house arrest in Baku, Azerbaijan.Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards and former poet laureate of Arlington, VA. Young has translated two collections of poetry by Inna Kabysh, Two Poems and Blue Birds and Red Horses. Her translations of Russian and Russophone poets have won national and international awards. She is the recipient of a 2017 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for the translation of Farewell, Aylis.

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“Reading Farewell,Aylis is like sitting by the fire at night with the older menof the village and listening to their stories, which in truth are the oralhistory of a people and a region, which in truth could turn out to beprophecies of our own lives. … In [the essay Farewell,Aylis, Aylisli] writes, ‘And I want to serve my motherland not as a patriotbut as a writer.’ And that is what he has done with these stories, making himperhaps the true patriot who does what is truly needed for his country and notwhat pleases and flatters. One, however, needs to read him first and foremostas a writer and be enamored of the allure of his storytelling.” —PoupehMissaghi, Asymptote